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Bug 136522 - please include vncviewer Xinerama patch for vnc-4.0
Summary: please include vncviewer Xinerama patch for vnc-4.0
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2006-06-12 01:07 UTC by Timothy Stotts
Modified: 2006-08-28 00:57 UTC (History)
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Attachments
Ebuild updated with Xinerama support (vnc-4.0-r2.ebuild,3.10 KB, text/plain)
2006-06-12 01:09 UTC, Timothy Stotts
Details
Patch to include -XineramaScreen option to vncviewer executable (vnc-xinerama.patch,6.51 KB, patch)
2006-06-12 01:10 UTC, Timothy Stotts
Details | Diff

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Description Timothy Stotts 2006-06-12 01:07:53 UTC
RealVNC (net-misc/vnc-4.0-r1) has the following limitation.  When the local machine is using a Xinerama or MergedFB based dual-head display, the program /usr/bin/vncviewer does not detect the two separate displays.  When running in "Full Screen", vncviewer always spreads across both displays instead being able to do "Full Screen" on just one display.

The following mail post at realvnc.com includes a patch to enhance vncviewer to understand the Xinerama extension:

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-May/045303.html

I have modified the said patch by Jakob Kemi <jakob.kemi "at" telia.com> for VNC 4.0 , and tested it under Gentoo Linux on a PPC machine.

Please find a patch and new ebuild to optionally include said patch with "xinerama" USE flag.
Comment 1 Timothy Stotts 2006-06-12 01:09:01 UTC
Created attachment 88967 [details]
Ebuild updated with Xinerama support
Comment 2 Timothy Stotts 2006-06-12 01:10:32 UTC
Created attachment 88968 [details, diff]
Patch to include -XineramaScreen option to vncviewer executable

File should be placed at:
    net-misc/vnc/files/vnc-4.0/vnc-xinerama.patch
with the other VNC 4.0 patches.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2006-08-28 00:57:06 UTC
if 4.1.2 doesnt work, please e-mail this patch to the vnc list rather than us