Bug 867 requested the display settings revert to their original values. The number of seconds before this happens is too short for me. I need more time to check the display is correct (and I am physically able-bodied). On changing a setting, the displays go off and, on coming back on, I have 7 seconds to confirm they are correct. If I have rotated a monitor that is insufficient time to physically rotate the monitor, glance around to check everything looks OK, and click on "Keep settings". Please can either the automatic reverting to previous settings take, say, 30 seconds or have that timeout period available somewhere as a setting. xfce4-display-settings 4.11.2 (Xfce 4.10) Xubuntu 14.04 Kernel: 3.13.0-67-generic
123456789.123456789.123456789.123456789.123456789.123456789. Allow 30 seconds to confirm display settings, not 10
Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the very late reply ! IMO 10 seconds are the better choice, because: - The purpose of the confirmation dialog is mainly to prevent a completely unusable system (all screens blanc, you dont even see the dialog any more --> recovery only via console ) - If that happens (e.g. set the refresh rate to something not supported by your display), than it makes sense that the system automatically recovers quickly ... if the dialog waits for 30 seconds, the user may already have pushed the "reset" button, which afaik would persist the wrong settings, rather than using the "fallback". In your use-case: (you can still see the dialog, so you can just accept the settings. Like that you have time to rotate the monitor.