Bug#756164: gnome-control-center: Display settings inoperable for dual monitors

[Daniel Dickinson]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:3.8.3-7+b2
Severity: normal

The display settings applet fails to actually be usuable with dual monitors.  Click on the
monitors fails to select that monitor to be operated on (i.e. clicks appear to have not effect).
Also one cannot drag the monitor to refect e.g. differences in height or the monitor detected
as secondary actually being on the left instead of right of the one detected as primary (to
all appears the mouse actually has not effect).

If one selects and deselects mirror mode one is able to select the secondary monitor, but if
one changes the resolution of the secondary monitor and click apply (in my case the secondary
monitor is larger and to the left of the primary) the follow messages pops up:

Failed to apply configuration: %s

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such method 'ApplyConfiguration'


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  accountsservice            0.6.37-2
ii  apg                        2.2.3.dfsg.1-2
ii  colord                     1.2.1-1
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gnome-control-center-data  1:3.8.3-7
ii  gnome-desktop3-data        3.12.2-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-menus                3.8.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      3.12.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.12.2-1
ii  libaccountsservice0        0.6.37-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-7
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0               0.30-2
ii  libcheese-gtk23            3.12.2-1
ii  libcheese7                 3.12.2-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0       1.5.2-2
ii  libcolord-gtk1             0.1.25-1.1+b1
ii  libcolord2                 1.2.1-1
ii  libcups2                   1.7.4-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.30.7-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   10.2.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.40.0-3
ii  libgnome-bluetooth11       3.8.1-3
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7       3.8.4-2
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b              3.12.2-1
ii  libgoa-backend-1.0-1       3.12.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.28.5-2
ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.7-1
ii  libkrb5-3                  1.12.1+dfsg-5
ii  libmm-glib0                1.2.0-1
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.9.10.0-1
ii  libnm-glib4                0.9.10.0-1
ii  libnm-gtk0                 0.9.10.0-2
ii  libnm-util2                0.9.10.0-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.3-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-6.1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    5.0-2
ii  libpulse0                  5.0-2
ii  libpwquality1              1.2.3-1
ii  libsmbclient               2:4.1.9+dfsg-1
ii  libsocialweb-client2       0.25.20-6
ii  libupower-glib1            0.9.23-2+b2
ii  libwacom2                  0.8-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-2
ii  libxi6                     2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-4

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  cups-pk-helper         0.2.5-2
ii  gkbd-capplet           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-online-accounts  3.12.2-1
ii  gnome-user-guide       3.12.2-1
ii  gnome-user-share       3.8.3-1
ii  iso-codes              3.55-1
ii  mesa-utils             8.2.0-1
ii  mousetweaks            3.12.0-1
ii  network-manager-gnome  0.9.10.0-2
ii  ntp                    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.105-2
ii  rygel                  0.22.2-2
ii  rygel-tracker          0.22.2-2
ii  system-config-printer  1.4.3-4

Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver        3.6.1-1+b1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  1.4.0-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk-module   0.30-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-2
ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+3

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