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bigsexy420

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Registered: 2012-07-11

Posts: 1

Can't exit from vncviewer fullscreen

I've just finished my first install of arch linux on my laptop the other day and I'm having a few problems that I'm hoping the community could help me with. I've got an Ubuntu server that I connect to via vnc, my problem is whenever I use the command

vncviewer -fullscreen <server address>

the vnc window opens just fine but I cant exit from the window. The only way that I can close out the vncviewer window is to either do a hard reboot of my laptop or kill the vnc server.

I've tried F8, F11, Ctrl-ESC, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F none of which have worked. I've also tried using Ctrl-Alt-Right Arrow and Left Arrow to switch virtual desktops but that doesn't seem to work either.

I'm sure It's probably something stupid that I'm doing either forgetting an argument or not using the right keystroke combination or something like that, but at this point I'm not sure what.

Thank you everyone in advance for your help

mrhhug

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Registered: 2012-09-12

Posts: 6

Re: Can't exit from vncviewer fullscreen

can confirm this problem also exists in a setting with X.Org X Server 1.15.0; MATE Desktop Environment 1.6.2;  TightVNC Viewer version 1.3.10 all from the arch repos. The documentation says hit f8 to open a menu which does not happen.

ctrl+c still get captured by the spawning terminal, so that works, but this is clearly not the intended way to close the viewer.