#450583 xtightvncviewer: scrollbars take realestate, but geometry can't be resized to compensate for lost realestate

Package:
xtightvncviewer
Source:
tightvnc
Description:
virtual network computing client software for X
Submitter:
Tim Connors
Date:
2021-08-21 21:18:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#450583#5
Date:
2007-11-08 11:13:36 UTC
From:
To:
I am trying to view a very wide screen on a machine with a taller but
less wide screen.  Naturally, this causes xtightvncviewer to display
scroll bars.  Alas, by adding a horizontal scrollbar, this takes 15 or
so pixels from the vertical size, so it needs to add a vertical
scrollbar as well.  If I try to get the window manager to increase the
vertical size of the vncviewer window, vncviewer refuses to increase
its height.  It will happily allow a decrease in height, so it appears
to have encoded the maximum window size to the size of the framebuffer
being displayed, without adding the necessary number of pixels that
are taken up by a scrollbar if displayed.
#450583#10
Date:
2007-11-12 19:29:51 UTC
From:
To:
Hi

Thanks for the report. I'll see what I can do about this. I hope
upstream have fixed in the version that I'll update to later.

Best regards,

// Ola
#450583#15
Date:
2021-08-21 21:07:23 UTC
From:
To:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:13:36 +1100 Tim Connors <reportbug@rather.puzzling.org> wrote:

Even with xtightvncversion 1.3.10 resizing the window does not handle
scrollbars correctly. As upstream does not maintain Tightvnc for Linux
any more, do not expect this bug being fixed some day.

Sven