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Changing resolution via Ctrl Alt +/- does not work

Bug #64926 reported by Lorenzo J. Lucchini
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Bug Description

I have not been able to switch resolutions using the standard X Ctrl+Alt combinations in Edgy.

Another user reported trying to add the "DontZoom" option and set it to False in xorg.conf, to no avail.

It is suspected that this problem results from compiling X with the "-fstack-protector" flag enabled (see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-bugzilla-noise/2004-July/001227.html).

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Vanessa Dannenberg (vanessadannenberg) wrote :

This also affects the one edgy box I have. Control-Alt-Plus/Minus are ignored in any window manager I use, whether I am running X as root or as a normal user. It is, however, still possible to cycle through your configured video modes using xvidtune or similar.

Attached is the xorg.conf from the affected machine, which worked fine under dapper.

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John Pham (jhnphm) wrote :

I can also confirm this bug. Seems to be an upstream bug, but can the patch be backported?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7097

Also seems to interfere w/ deactivategrab, which is needed for breaking out of fullscreen apps like games:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-September/017855.html

Changed in xorg:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Georges (georgeskesseler) wrote :

I am alos hanging on this problem

interesting is that I can use xbindkeys to bind "xvidtune -next" to about any keyboard combination except for Control+Alt+KP_Add
So the functionality is halfway there and halfway gone.

I'm using now the binding Control+Alt+plus and Control+Alt+minus which are the + and - keys on the normal keyboard.

Here is my xbindkeys:

#next rez
"/usr/bin/xvidtune -next"
   Control+Alt + plus

#prev rez
"/usr/bin/xvidtune -prev"
   Control+Alt + minus

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Debian reports this fixed as of xserver 1.3, which is now available in Gutsy
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391052

Changed in xorg:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Georges (georgeskesseler) wrote :

I upgraded to feisty and it is fixed in the default install. (7.2-0ubuntu11)

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Great, thanks for confirming the fix!

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importance: Unknown → Low
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