Public bug reported:
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
** Affects: vinagre (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Remote Desktop Viewer does not fully go fullscreen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331456
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