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Description of problem: I connect external 19" screen to my laptop with intel card and Rawhide (with all updates) starts X with 1024x768 resolution. With Fedora 8 this screen is correctly setup and X starts automatically with 1280x1024 resolution. When I install resapplet and switch with it resolution to 1280x1024 then it works ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 304509 [details] Xorg.0.log
Created attachment 304510 [details] xorg.conf
This is intentional. We try to avoid incompletely-overlapping monitors in the initial configuration heuristic, instead preferring whatever the best common mode is.
1280x800 and 1280x1024 screens have work out a 1024x768 resolution - why? how is user on fedora desktop suposed to switch to a higher resolutions when needed? For me personally the F8 worked better than currently Rawhide is working.
The largest mode your 1280x800 and 1280x1024 screens have in common is 1024x768. If I picked 1280x800, there's a good chance your 12x10 screen wouldn't be able to display it. If I pick 12x10, your 12x8 screen will only be part of the screen. This actually does really nasty things when (for example) a buggy firmware table leads us to believe there's an 800x600 screen attached as well as your real 1280x1024, and then your panels are stuck to the "inner" screen dimensions, floating in the middle of your real display. Yes, the current heuristic is bad, but it's the least bad of the available options. For F10 we expect to have this fixed so that the initial configuration heuristic is "right of" instead of "clone". If you want something bigger, use System / Preferences / Hardware / Screen Resolution, which will let you configure your outputs with RANDR and will save its settings to gconf so they apply at login.
I have a use case that this new feature breaks and that is why I reported it as a bug. I have (and probably others do also) a laptop that they carry around and use only it's inner display. But when I return home I plug it in to 19" screen. On fedora 8 this works great and my 19" screen is correctly displaying 1280x1024 resolution but with rawhide this feature breaks this use case. Using System / Preferences / Hardware / Screen Resolution doesn't work currently (I tested it now and it just does nothing). Also setting fixed resolution in xorg.conf isn't a good idea if it would cause problems without external screen connected to laptop. I'm not a newbie user so that is not a bit issue for me but there others that this will cause problems for. I found 'resapplet' - resolution applet that let's me easily change my resolution and it would be a nice thing to have installed and enabled by default. If you still think that this bug needs to be closed or if you belive that I should post a RFE or something else please point me in the right direction. Thank you for your answer.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Once I setup resolution in gnome via /system/preferences/hardware/screen resolution now everytime I boot into gnome my resolution after a few seconds go to the 1280x1024 and I love that feature! One issue I still have is that on GDM screen I still see the "bad" resolution of 1024x768.
It there a way so that setting from /system/preferences/hardware/screen resolution can be brought to GDM screen?
I created a RFE: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450843 I'm not sure if my proposal has some flaw in it so please check it out.
So, this bug is NOTABUG now, right?
As Adam said in comment #3 it is a feature not a bug... but I still would call it a usability bug.
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