Bugzilla – Bug 428976
Unable to switch back resolution in monitor resolution settings
Last modified: 2011-03-01 23:53:02 UTC
I had my beta1 vm running 1024x768 but changed to 800x600 using the gnome monitor resolution tool. This worked great but after that I was not able to switch back to 1024x768 and had to use yast/sax (choosing the 1024 resolution and pressing apply does nothing)
Created attachment 241015 [details] Screenshot
Just to confirm, when you logged back in the tool said "1024x768" instead of "800x600"?
No (sorry I should have explained better): The screenshot shows the dialog after I changed the res dropdown to 1024 and pressed apply. If I restart the session (or just the app) it's back to 800x600.
Oops! I just double checked. This is what really happens: - in a 1024 desktop, set to 800, apply => resolution changes - log out, log in => 800 desktop - now, set to 1024, apply => no change - close app, restart: still says 800 - restart session => 1024 desktop So, it actually changes the res 800->1024, but not on the fly (as 800->1024 does)
Does this work if you are on a physical machine (not on a virtual machine)? It works for me fine outside of a VM. Other than that, the code currently does not actually check if setting the new video mode was successful (it's not entirely trivial, since the capplet doesn't do the mode change; instead, it asks gnome-settings-daemon to do the change asynchronously).
Well, it works fine on 11.0 on my notebook. Sadly I don't have a 11.1 beta installation on real hardware yet. However, I'm able to switch back to other resolutions just fine with the xrandr command line tool... so I'm not sure if this is likely to be a VM bug.
Setting to needinfo... Michael, please reopen the bug once you are able to test this on your VM.
No answer, so closing. Please reopen if you can reproduce on a recent version of openSUSE.