Comment 10 for bug 331456

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
>