Fullscreen not using whole screen

[deroby]

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

[Andrey Melentyev (melentye)]

I'm not sure if its the same issue, but full screen mode in vinagre doesn't work well in my case too. I have some space on the top of the screen, I think that it has the same size as my top Gnome panel on host machine.

I'm running Jaunty with latest updates on both computers.

Please see the screenshot from the host machine.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks for the report. Do you have desktop effects enabled (System>Preferences>Appearance>Visual Effects)? Does enabling/disabling these cause any difference? deroby: does this occur for you in Ubuntu 9.04?

[deroby (deroby)]

Hi Robert,

There are no desktop effects enabled on my machine. I'll try to have a look at it tonight/tomorrow whether switching it on/off makes a difference...

I 'm hoping to upgrade one of these days, although that might not be before next weekend. Once I get there I will post a comment here.

Thx for looking into this.

PS: in the meanwhile I've changed the way VNC-server works on the WindowsXP side so it only sends through the 'virtual' 1600x1200 screen (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\RealVNC\WinVNC4\DisplayDevice is set to \\.\DISPLAY2)
Sadly it remains trial & error to get it to go full-screen properly on the Ubuntu side, so I don't think it's because of the "enormous" resolution I was trying to pass along...

[deroby (deroby)]

Update as promised.

Went into Appearance and enabled "normal effects"
=> worked flawless, the screen was positioned nicely as expected (0,0) - (1600,1200) when I went full-screen
I did however, have no 'bars' left in any application.. (calculator, amule, ...) (is this a bug in 8.10 or me not knowing how to use it ??)

So I rebooted the machine, same thing
I switched to "extra effects" , same thing, none of the windows show a 'bar', so I have no minimize/maximize/close button either, nor a way to drag windows around... very weird, and those effects seem rather harsh on my gfx card (slowish!).

But when I connect with Vinagre, and go fullscreen it's perfect every time. Off course I'm unable to drag the window around, so it might as well be because the top is positioned 'optimally'.

Turning off the visual effects brought the window bars back, and it seems that the position of the full-screen window remains correct too now. That is, until I move the windowed version to ca halfway the screen and press F11 again, then it goes into full-screen, but at the 'set' position (ca (800, 600) - (2400, 1800))

very strange

Not sure if this is important but I have my menu-bar on the top of the screen and my status/system-bar (?) on the bottom of the screen.
If all of this doesn't really make sense I'll make a bunch of screen-shots to explain, feel free to ask if you think that is necessary.

(and should I postpone switching to 9.04 or do you rather have me upgrade asap ? (upgrading has always been a hassle getting the nvidia drivers going so I'm not really looking forward to it =)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

OK, I can confirm this too. I've connected from my Ubuntu 9.04 laptop (1280x800) to a Windows Vista laptop running RealVNC (also 1280x800) when I go fullscreen about 1 in 6 times after going fullscreen the GNOME menubar is still visible. I'm using no desktop effects.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Thanks for the feedback deroby - no need for you to upgrade as it is still a problem in 9.04.

[john pabisz (jp-accounts)]

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.

[Geoff (dofinch-smokie)]

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

[john pabisz (jp-accounts)]

For all the great info I've taken from here, I was thrilled to give
even a little something back.

jon

<email address hidden> 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
>

[Geoff (dofinch-smokie)]

Hello Jon,

.... and it was a good one!

I noticed that, with scaling switched ON and in full-screen mode, the resolution took a hit on my display. Also that, if I kept in full-screen mode and switched OFF the scaling again:

1) Resolution was restored
2) Vinagre remained stable in full-screen mode.

You can switch off scaling without leaving full-screen mode by moving the cursor to the top of the screen to reveal the vinagre full-screen control panel. Then click on the magnifying glass icon.

Best of all worlds! Thanks again.

Geoff

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:12 -0400, john pabisz wrote:

> For all the great info I've taken from here, I was thrilled to give
> even a little something back.
>
> jon
>
>
> <email address hidden> 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 2.24.1-0ubuntu...

[john pabisz (jp-accounts)]

Hi Geoff,

FYI, I noticed the resolution degraded [slightly] also, I thought it
was just
an artifact of my small laptop screen.

John

<email address hidden> wrote:
> Hello Jon,
>
> .... and it was a good one!
>
> I noticed that, with scaling switched ON and in full-screen mode, the
> resolution took a hit on my display. Also that, if I kept in
> full-screen mode and switched OFF the scaling again:
>
> 1) Resolution was restored
> 2) Vinagre remained stable in full-screen mode.
>
> You can switch off scaling without leaving full-screen mode by moving
> the cursor to the top of the screen to reveal the vinagre full-screen
> control panel. Then click on the magnifying glass icon.
>
> Best of all worlds! Thanks again.
>
> Geoff
>
> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:12 -0400, john pabisz wrote:
>
> > For all the great info I've taken from here, I was thrilled to give
> > even a little something back.
> >
> > jon
> >
> >
> > <email address hidden> 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 doe...