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Powerpoint presentation mode doesn't go fullscreen
When in presentation mode, Powerpoint doesn't fill the entire screen with the presentation as one would expect.
See attached screenshot.
Technical details:
- Host OS: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa).
- Winapps: Latest git.
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FreeRDP packages: freerdp2-x11 , libfreerdp-client2-2:amd64 and libfreerdp2-2:amd64.
- Version: 2.2.0+dfsg1-0ubuntu0.20.04.4.
- Arch: amd64.
- Guest OS: Windows 10 PRO 22H2.
- Office: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016.
Please let me know if you need any more information. If there is some configuration I can do on my end to get this working properly, also please let me know.
Thank you and congratulations for this awesome project!
This is not something you can just configure with winapps yet, but you could manually connect via freerdp and force fullscreen via a commandline argument, although I don't know how that's compatible with the application mode
Thank you for your suggestion @oskardotglobal There seems to be some inconsistency with how xfreerdp deals with fullscreen and I'm not yet sure what causes it, or how to mitigate this.
In some rare occasions, PowerPoint's presentation mode fills most of the screen (it doesn't cover the plasma panel in the bottom). However, most of the times it doesn't. It starts by filling the screen, then it sort of wobbles between sizes and settles on a small size like I've shown in my first attachment. In a very lucky strike I was able to screen record both behaviors in one go, take a look at the attached video.
I've tried adding the +toggle-fullscreen flag to xfreerdp, removing /dynamic-resolution, /span, substituting /scale:100 for /size:100%, but none of that resulted in different behavior.
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps/assets/10618435/a7becf51-7069-4a73-a0af-62ff5ebd5b88
Honestly, this seems very much like an xfreerdp issue. Did you try installing the latest version (at time of writing that's 2.11.0)? You can install it via the repository at https://pub.freerdp.com/repositories/deb/
Honestly, this seems very much like an xfreerdp issue.
That's my suspicion as well, but given my limited knowledge on FreeRDP, I thought I might raise an issue here first in the hopes that there was some "special" configuration I could apply to winapps that could fix this behavior (maybe add some "secret" flags do xfreerdp).
Did you try installing the latest version (at time of writing that's 2.11.0)?
Yes, I get the same results even when using xfreerdp from the latest the nightly build.
$ /opt/freerdp-nightly/bin/xfreerdp --version
This is FreeRDP version 3.0.0-dev3 (17d64237e)
Maybe the folks at FreeRDP/FreeRDP could assist you further with this.
I sure hope so. I'll raise an issue with them regarding this. If you'd like, I could to keep this issue updated with any relevant information I might get from them.
If you'd like, I could to keep this issue updated with any relevant information I might get from them.
Just link the new issue here for reference
configuration I could apply to winapps
Maybe some day. Currently, this is just a surprisingly not janky shell script
Issue opened with FreeRDP: https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/issues/9348
