gnome-control-center does not respond after we set the resolution 320x180

The attached movie shows how to reproduce this bug.

Does it work at 800 x 600?

Could you attach your journal log after getting the issue?

Leon mentioned by email that resolutions < 800 x 600 are not shown under Xenial.

@Will,

The OS works well in the resolution 800x600.

@Sebastien,

The attached file is the output of "journalctl".

Could you install gnome-session and see if you get the same issue in an GNOME session (instead of Ubuntu), the log has those errors

gnome-shell[3484]: clutter-actor.c:10049: Actor 'dashtodockDashScrollview' tried to allocate a size of 132.00 x -3.00
gnome-control-c[5021]: Error calling GetCurrentState: Timeout was reached
gsd-xsettings[3602]: Failed to get current display configuration state: Timeout was reached

could be a dashtodock issue...

I installed the gnome-session and select the gdm3.

At first, The resolution can be set to 320x180, the countdown dialog show up.
But, I fail to set the resolution to 320x180 at second time.

The error message looks different.

The attached file is the output of journalctl with gnome-session.

Proposed fix: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/164

This will be fixed in mutter (3.29.90-1)

The fix for this is included in mutter 3.29.90-1

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 3.29.90-1

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mutter (3.29.90-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * New upstream release
    - Don't try to use an invalid monitor mode to figure out scaling
      (LP: #1723615)
  * d/p/window-wayland-Always-update-monitor-for-non-user-ops.patch,
    d/p/native-gpu-Handle-drmModeSetCrtc-failing-gracefully.patch,
    d/p/wayland-Nullify-monitor-resources-when-updating-outputs.patch,
    d/p/monitor-manager-Filter-out-low-screen-resolutions.patch,
    d/p/window-Don-t-refuse-to-move-focus-to-the-grab-window.patch,
    d/p/window-Explicitly-exclude-unmanaging-window-from-focus-ag.patch:
    Drop patches that were applied upstream
  * d/libmutter-3-0.symbols: Update
    - Ignore ABI change in experimental: removal of
      meta_prefs_override_preference_schema()
    - Add Breaks on previous experimental gnome-shell

 -- Simon McVittie <email address hidden> Wed, 01 Aug 2018 09:03:19 +0100

Hello Leon, or anyone else affected,

Accepted mutter into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/3.28.3-2~ubuntu18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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I verified the mutter=3.28.3-2~ubuntu18.04.1 on Dell Inspiron 5480.
The resolutions is keeped larger than 800x512.

This bug was fixed in the package mutter - 3.28.3-2~ubuntu18.04.1

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mutter (3.28.3-2~ubuntu18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport from unstable to bionic

mutter (3.28.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * debian/gbp.conf: Set the upstream branch to upstream/3.28.x, since we've
    branched for experimental now.

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * d/p/native-gpu-Handle-drmModeSetCrtc-failing-gracefully.patch:
    - Avoid crashing when warning about wrongly set crtc mode
      (LP: #1754949)
  * d/p/gpu-kms-Don-t-crash-if-drmModeGetResources-returns-N.patch:
    - Don't crash if drmModeGetResources returns NULL (LP: #1767956)
  * d/p/window-wayland-Always-update-monitor-for-non-user-ops.patch:
    - Always update monitor in wayland, avoiding crash (LP: #1784398)
  * d/p/monitor-manager-Filter-out-low-screen-resolutions.patch:
    - Don't return screen resolutions that can't be applied (LP: #1772831)
  * d/p/window-Don-t-refuse-to-move-focus-to-the-grab-window.patch,
    d/p/window-Explicitly-exclude-unmanaging-window-from-focus-ag.patch:
    - Don't crash if a modal dialog closes while being dragged
      (LP: #1422253)
  * d/p/monitor-Use-current-monitor-mode-to-check-whether-active.patch:
    - Don't try to use an invalid monitor mode to figure out scaling
      (LP: #1723615)

  [ Simon McVittie ]
  * Sort patch series in upstream order, with patches applied upstream
    first
  * d/copyright: Remove obsolete FSF postal addresses
  * Standards-Version: 4.1.5 (no changes required)
  * Set Rules-Requires-Root to no
  * Update symbols file

mutter (3.28.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * No-change backport to bionic (LP: #1783311)

mutter (3.28.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release
  * d/p/backends-Add-logical-monitor-monitor-output-crtc-ref-chai.patch,
    d/p/backends-Move-MetaOutput-crtc-field-into-private-struct.patch,
    d/p/clutter-device-evdev-Get-devices-from-main-seat-if-no-rea.patch,
    d/p/clutter-evdev-Don-t-ignore-CAPS-lock-as-modifier.patch,
    d/p/clutter-evdev-ignore-injected-events-from-IM.patch,
    d/p/clutter-seat-evdev-Add-function-to-get-device-by-id.patch,
    d/p/device-manager-evdev-Add-main-seat-to-seats-by-default.patch,
    d/p/device-manager-evdev-Free-the-main-seat-on-finalize.patch,
    d/p/device-manager-evdev-Set-and-unset-the-stage-for-the-main.patch,
    d/p/frames-Allow-for-unknown-mouse-buttons.patch,
    d/p/frames-Handle-touch-events.patch,
    d/p/frames-Make-1st-button-motion-handlers-take-generic-event.patch,
    d/p/renderer-native-Don-t-crash-if-the-FB-surface-can-t-be-lo.patch,
    d/p/wayland-Compare-geometries-after-chaining-up.patch,
    d/p/wayland-Don-t-reset-input-focus-on-text-commit.patch,
    d/p/wayland-Use-cursor-position-in-logical-monitor.patch,
    d/p/wayland-update-enter-leave-output-after-effects.patch,
    d/p/window-actor-add-new-signal-effects-completed.patch:
    Remove patches already applied on 3.28 branch

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Aug 2018 05:20:10 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for mutter has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.