RDP viewer forgets window size after fullscreen session

[Peter D'Hoye]

Binary package hint: vinagre

In ubuntu 8.04, RDP viewer switched back to the same window size after a fullscreen session (F11). Now (ubuntu 8.10), when returning from a fullscreen session, the window is semi-maximized, part of it sometimes offscreen. Fugly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vinagre
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: vinagre 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
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 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

I'm afraid I'm not able to reproduce this. Could you answer these questions?

What window manager are you using? (copiz, metacity, other)
Can you give precise steps to reproduce the issue? From your initial description I'm not sure if I should come back from fullscreen when there's still a connection or not, for example. Please make it as descriptive as possible.

Thanks

[Peter D'Hoye (peter-dhoye)]

Good point. I tried compiz and metacity, and this only seems to happen in compiz.
I will add that I use the binary nvidia driver though I'm not convinced this is the cause.

to reproduce:

1. start a session, have the window about half the height and width of your display
2. switch to fullscreen (press F11)
3. switch back (press F11 again)

observe that the window is no longer half the height and width of the display, but something seemingly random. Sometimes the window is moved partly off-screen, making it impossible to close by clicking the [x] button.

Please let me know if you need more input or even screenshots to illustrate the bug.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Thanks, that should suffice. Opening a compiz task, likely a compiz issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, could you take an screenshot of the issue?

[Peter D'Hoye (peter-dhoye)]

attached screenshots:

before_fullscreen.png = my desktop with a VNC session in a window

press F11 twice

after_fullscreen.png = same desktop after pressing F11 twice (fullscreen and back again). Notice the window size changed and the window is off the desktop at the bottom

[Peter D'Hoye (peter-dhoye)]

bah, could only attach one screenshot at the time :/

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Peter D'Hoye (peter-dhoye)]

Since Natty Narwhal is utter crap (it completely trashed my netbook on upgrade + I hated Unity after 5 minutes), I will be moving away from Ubuntu anyway. So I couldn't care less that this bug is closed after 2 years of not looking into it.
-Thanksbye-

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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