Comment 9 for bug 331456

Hello John and Vinagre,

John, your workaround WORKS for me as well! MANY thanks for letting us know!

Geoff

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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.

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Fullscreen not using whole screen
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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