GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 609923
Desktop background wrongly sized after reconfiguring screen size for external monitor
Last modified: 2014-03-27 10:05:31 UTC
My regular laptop screen resolution is 1280x800. I have an external monitor with a native resolution of 1680x1050. When I switch to using just the external monitor (through Fn+F8) the desktop background appears to be wrongly sized, as it thinks the resolution is actually much larger - the aspect ratio of the background thumbnails and the virtual desktop thumbnails confirms this (see screenshot). And actually, taking a screenshot of the whole desktop confirm this.
Originally filed as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/442904
I'm having this exact same problem, image attached. I must add that this is not a nautilus problem, because i told gnome to not render the desktop or the background(using config-editor) and used pcmanfm instead to render my desktop and wallpaper, it works fine but it has the same problem. I didn't have that problem in xfce, maybe because the menu bar is on the bottom, and that somehow creates a barrier. I tried adding another gnome-panel and it went all the way down where i can't see it, but strangely i can delete it right clicking in the desktop in the area where its supposed to be.
Created attachment 195942 [details] The desktop is a square not a polygon. Some parts of the square are hidden.
The panel part is a lie, it is where its supposed to be, but that doesn't help, i can just click below it and the panel its supposed to be at the bottom of the page.
Does this still occur?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!