For all the great info I've taken from here, I was thrilled to give even a little something back.
jon dofinch-smo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > Hello John and Vinagre, > > John, your workaround WORKS for me as well! MANY thanks for letting us > know! > > Geoff > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > I may have found a workaround. If I select view->scaling, it show the > correct full-screen view, without the gnome toolbar. I am then able > to repeatedly jump in and out of fullscreen as well. > > -- > Fullscreen not using whole screen > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331456 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > > Status in Vinagre: VNC client for GNOME: New > Status in “vinagre” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: vinagre > > I'm 'abusing' my Ubuntu laptop as an external screen for my WindowsXP > using Remote Desktop Viewer. The "trick" is to use ZoneScreen to > create a 'virtual' monitor and VNC to copy the contents from one pc to > another. > I have the VNC client on "read-only" and panned complete to the right > so the visible area perfectly covers the ZoneScreen-monitor. > > This works flawless, even thought the total screen is rather big (1024 > + 1920 + 1600 x 1200), the 100Mbit LAN handles it just fine, I assume > it's smart enough to only send through the 'useful' bits. > > However, more often than not when I try to go full-screen, it seems a > 1600x1200 'square' is assigned to VNC (= (native) resolution of the > Ubuntu desktop), but it's not properly positioned at (0, 0) but > instead seems to try to put itself somewhere on top of the INSIDE of > the non-fullscreen (aka windowed) screen. Hence I keep to see the > Ubuntu tool-bar on top of the screen, and part of the windows-screen > 'falls of the bottom'. > Sometimes it helps when I make the windowed version a lot smaller and > then try to move it around the screen randomly and try to go > full-screen (F11) again : it might jump into the correct position, but > it usually takes a lot of tries... I have not found any logic in it > (yet), but it seems the offset is (almost) always the top-left > position of the windowed-version. > > Another "trick" is to move the VNC application to another desktop and > try there... again, sometimes it works, often it doesn't. > > Hope this makes sense, I've included 2 screenshots to make it a bit > more clear. Feel free to ask for more details via email. > Thanks for making the effort to look at this ! > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vinagre > NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia > Package: vinagre 2.24.1-0ubuntu1.1 > ProcEnviron: > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: vinagre > Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 > -- Fullscreen not using whole screen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331456 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
