Comment 12 for bug 148056

Report that as a bug against gnome-control-center please.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 01:27:44PM -0000, electricbrad wrote:
> So can you then make the screen resolution applet work when there is no
> local monitor? Or should I report that as a bug too? The only reason I
> tried the old "screens and graphics" thing is because the SR applet has
> all choices greyed out when there is no local monitor. So I still have
> no way to adjust my screen size while working over VNC.
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
>
> --- On Wed, 7/30/08, Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > From: Bryce Harrington <email address hidden>
> > Subject: [Bug 148056] Re: displayconfig-gtk crashed with IndexError in getSize()
> > To: <email address hidden>
> > Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 2:12 AM
> > Thank you for reporting this bug and for your efforts to
> > make Ubuntu
> > better. As Xorg has improved this past year, an unfortunate
> > side effect
> > of these improvements is that it has rendered several
> > design assumptions
> > in displayconfig-gtk obsolete. So, starting with Hardy we
> > are no longer
> > putting displayconfig-gtk forth as a primary configuration
> > tool, and are
> > putting our development focus into the Screen Resolution
> > applet. As a
> > result, we do not plan to fix this bug and thus are closing
> > it.
> >
> > For more background on this change, please see this page:
> > [WWW]
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/DisplayConfigGtk
> >
> > ** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu)
> > Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix
> >
> > --
> > displayconfig-gtk crashed with IndexError in getSize()
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148056
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> > subscriber
> > of a duplicate bug.
> >
> > Status in “displayconfig-gtk” source package in Ubuntu:
> > Won't Fix
> >
> > Bug description:
> > Binary package hint: displayconfig-gtk
> >
> > on gutsy beta, got exception when trying to configure
> > external monitor (ACER AL2216W) on laptop Dell latitude D620
> > impossible to modify the resolution / refreshing rate even
> > on main monitor after that
> >
> > ProblemType: Crash
> > Architecture: i386
> > Date: Tue Oct 2 11:49:43 2007
> > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
> > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk
> > InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> > Package: displayconfig-gtk 0.3.1
> > PackageArchitecture: all
> > ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk
> > ProcCwd: /home/julien
> > ProcEnviron:
> >
> > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk']
> > SourcePackage: displayconfig-gtk
> > Title: displayconfig-gtk crashed with IndexError in
> > getSize()
> > Uname: Linux uni-gutsy 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23
> > 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> --
> displayconfig-gtk crashed with IndexError in getSize()
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148056
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to
> displayconfig-gtk in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “displayconfig-gtk” source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: displayconfig-gtk
>
> on gutsy beta, got exception when trying to configure external monitor (ACER AL2216W) on laptop Dell latitude D620
> impossible to modify the resolution / refreshing rate even on main monitor after that
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Tue Oct 2 11:49:43 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
> Package: displayconfig-gtk 0.3.1
> PackageArchitecture: all
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk
> ProcCwd: /home/julien
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/displayconfig-gtk']
> SourcePackage: displayconfig-gtk
> Title: displayconfig-gtk crashed with IndexError in getSize()
> Uname: Linux uni-gutsy 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux