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Bug 575571 - No feedback when XRANDR operations fail
No feedback when XRANDR operations fail
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Soren Sandmann Pedersen
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2009-03-16 15:52 UTC by Sam Morris
Modified: 2009-03-17 20:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sam Morris 2009-03-16 15:52:53 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The screen resolution preferences applet does not appear to do anything on my system.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Connect an external monitor to my laptop
2. Move the laptop's display to the left of the external monitor
3. Press Apply


Actual results:
Nothing

Expected results:
I should get the same error message that I get from running 'xrandr --output VGA --right-of LVDS'. I don't have the exact error message to hand because I have now told X that I want a large-enough frame buffer to allow the operation, but it was something like 'requested size is XxX which is larger than the maximum YxY'.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Sam Morris 2009-03-16 15:56:36 UTC 
Here's the error from xrandr:

$ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800 --left-of VGA
xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1680x1680 (desired size 2960x1050)
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2009-03-17 20:53:49 UTC 
This is fixed in 2.25.x; the Display Settings capplet now tells you about such errors.