| Summary: | display resolution not saved by "system settings" | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | George R. Goffe <grgoffe> |
| Component: | kcm_randr | Assignee: | Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <gustavo.boiko> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | annma, bcooksley, dramascus, gizz, hbock, wol |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
George R. Goffe
2010-03-04 13:03:44 UTC
Confirmed in 4.4 branch (did not check trunk) This is important, to me at least :-) I have a new linux user, with an HP 2009v screen. This unfortunately reports its resolution (correctly) to linux as 1600x900. However, it then goes into 1440x900 resolution and there is (apparently) NO way to change the resolution using the buttons on the screen :-( So the poor user has to try and fight their way into System Settings to change the resolution, when Geeko (and hence the system menu) is invisible off the left of the screen :-( NOT the impression I want to give a new user :-( It wouldn't normally matter, but interacting with this ?hardware? problem makes it a bit of a problem. (I do gather XP suffers a similar problem :-) Cheers, Wol As a workaround, add "krandrtray" to the list of applications to startup. This can be done using System Settings > Advanced > Autostart, or by copying its *.desktop to ~/.kde4/Autostart I created an example configuration in vmware. - X-Server default resolution is 1024x768 - KDE systemsettings set to 800x600 Content of .kde4/share/config/krandrrc: [Screen_0] OutputsUnified=false UnifiedRect=0,0,0,0 UnifiedRotation=1 [Screen_0_Output_default] Active=true Rect=0,0,800,600 RefreshRate=60 Rotation=1 Output of .xsession-errors: kephald starting up XRANDR error base: 162 RRInput mask is set!! RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 265 1024 x 768 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 266 1024 x 768 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 267 800 x 600 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 268 800 x 600 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 269 800 x 600 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 270 640 x 480 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 271 640 x 480 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 272 320 x 240 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 273 400 x 300 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 274 512 x 384 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 275 1152 x 864 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 276 1280 x 960 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 277 1400 x 1050 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 278 1600 x 1200 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 279 1920 x 1440 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 280 2048 x 1536 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 281 854 x 480 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 282 1280 x 720 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 283 1366 x 768 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 284 1920 x 1080 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 285 1280 x 800 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 286 1440 x 900 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 287 1680 x 1050 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 288 1920 x 1200 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 289 720 x 480 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 290 720 x 576 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 291 320 x 200 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 292 640 x 400 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 293 800 x 480 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 294 1280 x 768 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 295 1280 x 1024 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode: 296 2360 x 1770 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding crtc: 263 RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding output: 264 Setting CRTC 263 on output "default" (previous 0 ) CRTC outputs: (264) Output name: "default" Output refresh rate: 60 Output rect: QRect(0,0 1024x768) Output rotation: 1 XRandROutputs::init added output 264 adding an output 0 with geom: QRect(0,0 1024x768) output: "SCREEN-0" QRect(0,0 1024x768) -1162167622 true true load xml connected: 1 looking for current "SCREEN-0" known "*" has score: 0.125 screen: 0 QRect(0,0 1024x768) looking for a matching configuration... connected: 1 looking for current "SCREEN-0" known "*" has score: 0.125 found outputs, known: false activate external configuration!! registered the service: true screens registered on the bus: true outputs registered on the bus: true configurations registered on the bus: true kded(7300)/kded4 Kded::loadModule: Successfully loaded module "kephal" So kephald does not read krandrrc? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183143 *** Not resolved at all. This has been a problem for me across three distro's and since kde 4.1. Will some one for the love of god fix this properly. Almost certainly related ... Take a look at bug 246298, which has been marked as "resolved". That's probably actually a duplicate of this bug, but the report goes into far more detail, and guy who's flagged it as fixed (lunak1) seems to have cleaned up a load of stuff. I haven't got the latest KDE (I'm waiting for gentoo to update it :-) so I can't confirm it really is fixed. Cheers, Wol |