Bug 123503

This is more complicated that it might appear the settings are very
closely tied to Xorg based on what avaialable resolutions are. 

To the best of my knowledge xorg.conf does not support U+00D7 within a
resolution string.  As x is what will be in the xorg.conf this doesn't
seem like a show stopper.  Adding to tracking bug. but as we're in
freeze for test2 will look at post freeze.

It is not my report from the beginning, but I do not think Christian's
intention was to use a multiplication sign in the generated xorg.conf
file.  I believe he only referred to the user interface.  There it
would appropriate with a multiplication sign.

Yes, I'm talking about UI only.

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This is still the case in the current release.

I did take a quick look at the code.  The available resolutions are apparently
not explicitly listed in there.  But I don't know Python well enough to
understand how they are computed.

Are the strings taken more directly from the X configuration?  If so, comment 1
could be more relevant than I understood before.  But I would like to understand
what actually happens here.

(In reply to comment #5)
> Are the strings taken more directly from the X configuration?  If so, comment 1
> could be more relevant than I understood before.  But I would like to understand
> what actually happens here.

They are, but we do get a chance to munge them before display.  Strictly
speaking X doesn't care about unicode, at least for this.  0xC397 doesn't look
like a string termination, so it'll still strcmp right.  In order to really fix
this you need to also fix rhpxl to know how to split up mode names on the
unicode X too; but my quick hack attempt does not appear to have worked.

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I started up system-config-display-2.2-1.fc12.x86_64 and it certainly still looks like an "x" rather than a multiplication sign to me.  So this enhancement (it's not really a "problem") could still be done.

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