Floating menu mostly disappears in fullscreen mode

[ahow628]

When going into full screen mode on Ubuntu 14.04 (connecting to a Ubuntu 14.04 running Unity and x11vnc), the floating menu at the top of the screen is mostly inaccessible.

I say mostly because you can wave your mouse around at the top center of the screen where the menu should appear and you will occasionally see something flash up for a split second. If you click continuously while waving the mouse around, you will occasionally hit a button.

Here are some more details:
1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center
vinagre:
  Installed: 3.10.2-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.10.2-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.10.2-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) What you expected to happen
Menu would appear at the top of the full screen window or at least when mouse hovers at top of full screen window.
4) What happened instead
Occasional split second pop up of window and tool tips. Can also click buttons if you are lucky.

Please let me know if there are logs I can pull.

[Paul (paul-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:

In F19, putting your cursor at the to middle of a full screen vinagre session brings up a drop down menu. With F20, this no longer works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.10.1.1.fc20

How reproducible:

Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to a vnc session
2. Enter full screen mode
3. Wave the mouse hopefully backwards and forwards at the top of the screen

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

Menu pops up when you are to middle of the screen to allow you to exit full screen mode

Additional info:

System just upgraded to f20 from f19. Alt-Tab with the mouse in the top middle of the screen allows you to switch back.

[Greg (greg-redhat-bugs)]

Reporting also seeing this, clean install of Fedora 20 x84_64 on a Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1, no menu pop-up. Have to ssh back to the guest machine from the host to kill the VNC session! ;-)

[Greg (greg-redhat-bugs)]

UPDATE: Seems the menu is there in some state, but not actually visible. I was able to escape my session in the GUI by moving the mouse to the top centre of the screen then clicking where the exit button *should* be. Weirdly this worked, even though I couldn't actually see a button!

[Manuel (manuel-redhat-bugs)]

Hello,

I confirm this behaviour too with an updated F20 system:

# yum info vinagre
[...]
Name : vinagre
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.10.2
Release : 1.fc20

As Greg said, the menu seems to be there when hovering the mouse over the centre top of the screen and leaving it static for a second or two; the tooltips of the buttons show up. The menu is not visible though.

[Wayne (wayne-redhat-bugs)]

Make sure you have View->Keyboard Shortcuts selected prior to entering fullscreen mode, and then F11 will allow you to toggle fullscreen on/off.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[The Setlaz (dam-brouard)]

Same bug for me on exact same setup !

Similar description here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1021838

Unfortunately, no fix so far !

[yoyoma2 (sinbad-4273)]

Note that the problem also occurs when connecting to a tightvnc server on Windows so the problem is with vinagre/Remote Desktop Viewer 3.10.2.

[yoyoma2 (sinbad-4273)]

The two workarounds mentioned in the redhat bug (The Seltaz, comment #2) also work on ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

1) Enable "Keyboard shortcuts" in the "View" menu. Then F11 exits fullscreen.

2) Hover the mouse over the centre top of the screen leaving it stationary for a second or two. Find the invisible "Leave fullscreen" button using the tooltips that popup when hovering a few pixels below the top. If you get another button's tooltip keep the same height and move left or right and hover again until you find the correct button location then click carefully without moving.

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[Santiago Gala (sgala)]

The problem is still there in Ubuntu 16.04.1

The workarounds work too

[Jaroslav (jaroslav-redhat-bugs)]

Still problem in f25.

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