On 12/2/12 5:58 PM, James Wettenhall wrote: > The full-screen mode checkbox in the Java TurboVNC Viewer application > doesn't appear to provide true OS X 10.7 / 10.8 full-screen mode (hiding > the menu bar and the dock). > > Are there any plans to implement that?
I don't actually have a 10.7 machine set up yet. I did just upgrade to the newest Parallels Desktop, which supposedly allows you to run 10.7 as a guest, but I don't know whether that works when using 10.6 as a host, or whether full-screen would work properly in the guest without a 10.7 host. I only have one machine that can run 10.7, and it's my primary machine for just about everything I do, so I'm very reluctant to upgrade it. Hence the desire to run 10.7 in a VM. Also, since this isn't a regression (proper full-screen support has never worked in the Mac viewer), it falls under the category of "needs funding". Currently the VGL General Fund is beyond exhausted for the year, and none of my paying customers are using Mac clients. It would be straightforward to implement, as you point out, but of course there would be some testing involved as well. I'm personally interested in the feature, but not enough to do it for free or to borrow against next year's general fund budget. > I just tried the Java code from the accepted answer on this Stack > Overflow page, and it seemed to work fine on my OS X 10.7 machine: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873568/fullscreen-feature-for-java-apps-on > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873568/fullscreen-feature-for-java-apps-on-osx-lion>-osx-lion > <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6873568/fullscreen-feature-for-java-apps-on-osx-lion> > > and according to the Stack Overflow page, the code is quietly ignored on > OS X 10.6. > > So I guess it should be possible to implement this in the Java TurboVNC > Viewer? It should be, yes. > We've been trying to "sell" the idea of using a remote desktop to some > of our Mac OS X users, but they have said that having both the Mac OS X > dock/menu-bar and the remote desktop's icons/menu makes the screen > appear cluttered and confusing. There is an option to disable the toolbar. I don't understand what else about it would be "cluttered." We're using a regular Mac menu just like all Mac apps do. The only oddness about it is the fact that there are two menus, one for the JVM and one for the actual app. There isn't a straightforward way to work around that without using JNI to make some very O/S-specific calls to a particular framework. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: BUILD Helping you discover the best ways to construct your parallel projects. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ VirtualGL-Devel mailing list VirtualGL-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/virtualgl-devel
