Bug#496169: gnome: Window manager using 1280x800 despite screen being 1680x1050.

[Charles Plessy]

Package: gnome
Version: 1:2.22.2~4
Severity: normal

Dear GNOME maintainers,

On a Lenny system, GDM and GNOME use only 1280x800 pixels despite the physical
resolution of the screen being 1680x1050. As a result there are strange
artefacts with fullscreen, the lower taskbar is not at the bottom of the
screen, and both up and down task bars do not reach the right side. The
background image, however is correctly set to 1680x1050, and it is possible to
move windows in areas ignored by GNOME. The utility for changing screen
resolution does not display anyghing higher than 1280x800. The login screen to
enter password after the session has been locked for inactivity is invisible.
These problems do not appear with KDE. There is probably a communication defect
between GNOME and X ?

In case it helps, here is the output of xrandr:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1680
VGA connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       60.0* 
   1280x768       60.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
LVDS connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1680x1050      59.9*+   60.0  
   1600x1024      60.0  
   1400x1050      85.3     74.8     70.0     60.0  
   1280x1024      85.0     75.0     60.0  
   1440x900       60.2  
   1280x960       85.0     60.0  
   1280x800       60.0  
   1152x864       85.1     75.0  
   1280x768       60.0  
   1152x768       54.8  
   1024x768       85.0     75.0     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        85.1     72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        85.0     72.8     75.0     59.9  
   720x400        85.0  
   640x400        85.1  
   640x350        85.1  
TV disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Have a nice day,

-- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome depends on:
ii  arj                        3.10.22-6     archiver for .arj files
ii  avahi-daemon               0.6.22-3      Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii  bluez-gnome                0.27-1        Bluetooth utilities for GNOME
ii  epiphany-extensions        2.22.2-1      Extensions for Epiphany web browse
ii  evolution-exchange         2.22.3.dfsg-1 Exchange plugin for the Evolution 
ii  evolution-plugins          2.22.3.1-1    standard plugins for Evolution
ii  evolution-webcal           2.21.92-1     webcal: URL handler for GNOME and 
ii  gdm-themes                 0.6           Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  gnome-app-install          0.5.5.1-1     GNOME Application Installer
ii  gnome-desktop-environment  1:2.22.2~4    The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii  gnome-games                1:2.22.3-1    games for the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-spell                1.0.7-1       GNOME/Bonobo component for spell c
ii  gnome-themes-extras        0.9.0.deb0.4  various themes for the GNOME 2 des
ii  gnome-vfs-obexftp          0.4-1         GNOME VFS module for OBEX FTP
ii  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg       0.10.4-3      FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.8-1      GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" 
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring       2.22.3-1      PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  p7zip                      4.58~dfsg.1-1 7zr file archiver with high compre
ii  rhythmbox                  0.11.6-1      music player and organizer for GNO
ii  serpentine                 0.9-5         An application for creating audio 
ii  swfdec-mozilla             0.6.0-2       Mozilla plugin for SWF files (Macr
ii  synaptic                   0.62.1        Graphical package manager
ii  system-config-printer      1.0.0-2       graphical interface to configure t
ii  totem-mozilla              2.22.2-3      Totem Mozilla plugin
ii  transmission-gtk           1.22-1        free, lightweight BitTorrent clien

Versions of packages gnome recommends:
pn  gdebi                    <none>          (no description available)
pn  gnome-games-extra-data   <none>          (no description available)
pn  gnome-office             <none>          (no description available)
ii  gparted                  0.3.8-1         GNOME partition editor
ii  gthumb                   3:2.10.8-1      an image viewer and browser
ii  hal-cups-utils           0.6.16-2        Utilities to detect and configure 
ii  hardinfo                 0.4.2.3-4       Displays system information
ii  liferea                  1.4.16b-0.1     feed aggregator for GNOME
ii  menu-xdg                 0.3             freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii  network-manager-gnome    0.6.6-2         network management framework (GNOM
ii  pidgin                   2.4.3-1         graphical multi-protocol instant m
pn  tomboy                   <none>          (no description available)
ii  tsclient                 0.150-1         front-end for viewing of remote de
ii  update-notifier          0.70.7.debian-3 Daemon which notifies about packag

Versions of packages gnome suggests:
pn  gnome-dbg                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  openoffice.org-evolution      1:2.4.1-6  Evolution Addressbook support for 
ii  openoffice.org-gnome          1:2.4.1-6  GNOME Integration for OpenOffice.o

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