Remmina remote desktop client goes fullscreen on the wrong display

[Josh]

When the fullscreen button on the toolbar is used with multiple displays enabled, Remmina maximizes on a random display rather than on the display where it is placed.

To replicate on a computer with multiple displays:

1. Launch Remmina.
2. Connect to a computer using RDP protocol.
3. Click the full screen button.

The application flips over to the other display and goes full screen.

4. Restore the application.
5. Drag it back to the display where you want it.
6. Click the full screen button again.

The application flips over to the other display and goes full screen.

The expectation is that the application should stay on the display where I put it or it should offer an option to allow me to specify the screen I want it on.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Herwin Grobben (herwin-grobben)]

PC config:
Dual monitor, different size ('primary' 1920x1200 & 'secondary' 1600x1200)
Ubuntu 12.04
Remmina 0.9.99.1

When starting Remmina on Workspace 2 (upper right), on the 'secondary' monitor, the connection opens in full screen on Workspace 1 or 3 on the 'primary' monitor. The connection is to a 1600x1200 screen via VNC.

[Raoul Bhatia (raoul-bhatia)]

Duplicate of bug 999985?

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

I've noticed this bug for years now. I would love it if Remmina would realize what monitor it is currently on, and go full screen on that monitor, instead of jumping fullscreen on a totally different monitor.

Is this a Unity Desktop issue, or does this happen when Remmina is used with other desktops too?

[Noah Putman (retroman2128)]

It's been this way for years in xubuntu. I have a triple-head setup at work and at home with AMD graphics cards and I can never get it to go fullscreen on the center monitor. It works fine on the left and the right, but when I hit fullscreen when it's in the middle, it jumps to the right.

[Andreas (andreas-rabus)]

It happens on a two monitor setup with Gnome Shell too.
Using Ubuntu 14.10 with Gnome 3.14 from gnome-team.

It jump frm the secondary (laptop internal) to the primary (external) Monitor.

[Rolf (thats-unpossible)]

I can still reproduce this on "Remmina v0.9.99.1"

[Rolf (thats-unpossible)]

FYI: Remmina v1.2 fixes this problem. If you follow the instructions at "https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/wiki" to get v1.2, it now maximizes on the screen it is located on.

[Sanjeev Kumar (kumars)]

I can still reproduce the problem with the latest "next" build that I installed following the instructions at "https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/wiki". So the fix either got reverted or pulled back?

[Antenore Gatta (antenore)]

HI all,

I rarely use launchpad (except for Remmina builds), so I didn't notice the traffic around this bug report.

I'll take a look, but then answer will come from github

https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/241

Please be sure to use always the Remmina PPA or directhly the source code.

[Bilal Baqar (bbaqar)]

I am hitting the same issue on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and remmina is on 1.0.0-1ubuntu6.3.

[Fransua (mochu33)]

I'm having this problem with ubuntu 16.04 installing remmina from the ppa repository. The version installed is 1.2.0-rcgit-15.

When I try to go to full screen the window of a RDP session, it goes from the secondary screen to primary screen. It's very annoying because my primary screen is only 1024x768 and my secondary fullHD.

Why there isn't an option in the preferences to assign a monitor in the resolutions window when multiple monitors? With this you can enforce the full screen in the correct monitor as a configuration. With this you don't need to detect the monitor when you are going to full screen.

[Christian Gleissner (cgleissner)]

I have the same setup and problem as Fransua in the comment before.

[Tim De Roover (w-tim-v)]

Same problem here.
I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome 3.18
I experienced this after updating to remmina 1.2
With the previous version (1.1.2) it worked fine on the screen that I wanted.

[Ștefănescu Cristian (howerkraft)]

This happens only in Gnome and according with the Github opened issue, this is a Gnome bug.
https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina/issues/873

[Jason Van Wynsberg (jasonvw)]

This also occurs in Arch Linux on KDE Plasma 5.9.

[davidak (davidak)]

I can't reproduce this issue with Remmina 1.1.2 on elementary OS 0.4 Loki (based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) with HWE Stack.

[Light Templar (lighttemplar)]

It occurs randomly, from build to build. Now, in the build 1.2.32, it occurs.

[Peter Pusztai (w1sp)]

The bug doesnt occur randomly. The behavior is just poorly programmed. Didnt check the source code, but it probably tests where your default/main panel is (atleast for KDE). To reproduce simply move your main panel to different display.

Wouldnt be easier to set it manually?

Think correctly...

[Majik Bear (majikbear)]

@howerkraft The bug you cited doesn't exist (404 when navigating to that link). #15

[Majik Bear (majikbear)]

This bug was confirmed and marked high importance 3 years ago in 2016 yet no action has been taken on it.

Any way we can speed this up?

[Mathias Winterhalter (toolsdevler)]

I opened a merge request which fixes that: https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/merge_requests/1895

[Mathias Winterhalter (toolsdevler)]

Fix Released in v1.3.6: https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/merge_requests/1900