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Bug 788054 - Apply button does not show even though changes are made (system with video outputs on 2 GPUs)
Apply button does not show even though changes are made (system with video ou...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-09-22 17:09 UTC by Hans de Goede
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:27 UTC
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Description Hans de Goede 2017-09-22 17:09:11 UTC
When connecting an usb display link device and then switching from "single display" to join displays the apply button does not show.
Comment 1 Paul 2017-10-02 12:47:07 UTC
I am also seeing this on multiple monitor setup. I have 3 displays attached to a 1080Ti via DisplayPort and the physical order (and arrangement in the displays config) is:-

    [ 1 ][ 3 ][ 2 ]

When I click the scale 200% button, the order in the arrangement changes to:-

    [ 3 ][ 1 ][ 2 ]

However, I DO NOT get any kind of "Apply" button.


Switching the scale toggle back to 100% leaves the updated arrangement, and presents the "Apply" button in the top right corner. (Which then re orders the screens if you click apply)


Ubuntu 17.10 + Gnome 3.26.0 + Nvidia binary 375.82
Comment 2 phiporiphic 2017-10-10 02:03:27 UTC
Experiencing similar apply button strangeness. It seems related to the individual scale setting.

Fedora 27 + Gnome 3.26.0, stock drivers (not using Nvidia binary). System has Intel integrated graphics and a Nvidia discrete, lspci identifies as "NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] (rev a2)".

With the external monitor disconnected, everything behaves as expected and a scale of 200% is intelligently selected. When the external monitor is connected by HDMI, both monitors' scale is set to 100%. Changing the scale for either monitor does not show an "Apply" button.

If I leave scale set to 100%, changing display arrangement will show an "apply" button which saves the new arrangement. However, if I select a different scale for either monitor, changing the display arrangement no longer shows an "apply" button. If I had previously changed and applied the arrangement, changing scale also causes the depicted arrangement to revert to the default.
Comment 3 oracle 2017-10-23 23:24:58 UTC
Same here, was trying to arrangement the displays to how I want (which was smaller above a larger display) but I can never get the apply button to appear. Then I switched to mirror which set both displays to the same (which I don't want) so I am trying to go back to joint displays but I cannot as the apply button *ALWAYS* disappears when the scale changes. The apply button should *ALWAYS* appear regardless of the change. Now I am stuck with a single display because it was the only way to restore the scale.
Comment 4 Samuel Dolt 2017-10-25 10:07:45 UTC
Same here, I have three display:
- Monitor 1, Laptop screen, 2880x1620
- Monitor 2, External screen 1: 1920 x 1080
- Monitor 3, External screen 2: 1920 x 1080

Monitor 2 and 3 are connected via a dock

G-C-C show a scaling of 200% for Monitor 1 and 2
G-C-C doesn't the scaling factor for Monitor 3

When running G-C-C from the console, I get three times:

(gnome-control-center:4441): display-cc-panel-WARNING **: Config not applicable: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Scale 2 not valid for resolution 1920x1080


OS: Ubuntu 17.10, gnome-control-center 3.26.1-0ubuntu4
Comment 5 Samuel Dolt 2017-11-02 15:33:12 UTC
I have workaround:

Force mutter to enable Wayland, even with a hybrid graphics card by adding:

MUTTER_ALLOW_HYBRID_GPUS=1

to /etc/environment

then reboot, now Wayland should be automatically used instead of x.org:

$ env|grep wayland        
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

Now the apply button appears on the Gnome Control Center
Comment 6 Hans de Goede 2017-11-08 15:43:50 UTC
Yes it seems this (mostly) happens in a gnome on Xorg session, but I believe I've seen it with gnome on mutter too, not sure though.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:27:09 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

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