Here are a couple of workarounds: >From the View menu in vinagre, enable "Keyboard Shortcuts". The F11 key will now toggle in and out of full screne mode. This had the disadvantage that some keystrokes or keystroke combinations aren't passed on to the remote desktop, which is usually the desired behavior
Hover your mouse pointer a few pixels below the top of the screen and move it slowly left and right over the area where the menu usually appears. Tooltips will pop out belonging to the buttons which should be displayed. Left-click when you see "Leave fullscreen". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vinagre in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547770 Title: Vinagre / Remote Desktop Viewer won't exit full screen when launched from command line Status in vinagre package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Launched vinagre as follows: vinagre -f --vnc-scale <host> Comes up fine. If you move mouse pointer to top middle, the Viewer menu fails to appear (there is flickering, but no menu). If launched with keep-aspect-ratio, it works fine - only goes wrong when has been scaled to full height vertically (i.e. no keep-aspect- ratio). Ubuntu 15.10, software up-to-date. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vinagre/+bug/1547770/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp