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 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
>
>