[fedora-virt] spice-gtk: menu bar shown in full-screen mode

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Jun 1 14:17:54 UTC 2011


On 06/01/2011 04:54 AM, Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 10:18 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 05/27/2011 04:11 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>>> Using SPICE from virt-manager and selecting View -> Fullscreen, the
>>> menu bar is still displayed, shifting the display downward.
>>>
>>>   Fedora 15
>>>   spice-gtk-0.5-6.fc15.x86_64
>>>   libvirt-0.8.8-4.fc15.x86_64
>>>   virt-manager-0.8.7-4.fc15.noarch
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a workaround?
>>>
>>
>> Upstream uses a mechanism similar to vinagre: when in fullscreen, there
>> is a hiding toolbar that is shown if the pointer is moved to the top
>> center of the screen.
>>
>> But until a new virt-manager version is released there isn't any
>> workaround. I'd like to release a new version within a month and push it
>> to f15.
>>
>> - Cole
> 
> This sounds cool, so I updated to upstream virt-manager and
> python-virtinst. When switching to fullscreen, the toolbar disappears.
> However it does not reappear, when moving the pointer to the top.
> 
> Anything I am doing wrong?
> 

Is this f14 or f15? Works for me on f14.

When the toolbar hides, it should leave a 1 pixel tall row on the top
center of the screen. Do you see that? If you run with virt-manager
--debug, are there any errors on the console?

- Cole


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