X2Go Bug report logs - #1454
Better explain fullscreen keyboard shortcuts usage on multi display setup

Package: wiki.x2go.org; Maintainer for wiki.x2go.org is x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org;

Reported by: Olivier Gauthier <oligau@oscille.ca>

Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 17:20:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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done. Thanks!

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:57 PM Olivier Gauthier <oligau@oscille.ca> wrote:
>
> Package: wiki.x2go.org
>
> Add missing keyboard shortcut Shift + Ctrl + Alt + F to x2goclient
> documentation.
>
> I spent an hour trying to figure why my X2Go session would not want to
> go fullscreen over all my screens like I normally do.
>
> I realized I always used Ctrl + Alt + F to go fullscreen as explained at
> https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:usage:x2goclient. That gave me
> fullscreen
> session spanning over all multi display screens as expected.
>
> However, without noticing it, I started using Shift + Ctrl + Alt + F
> this morning because my muscle memory have been trained while using
> Guacamole menu shortcut (uses Shift-Ctrl-Alt keys to toggle menu).
>
> I did not notice at first, because Shift + Ctrl + Alt + F also works on
> X2Go Client, but it only go fullscreen on current display screen.
>
> It puzzled me for a while today, so I went back to wiki page, to figure
> I have been using wrong shortcut.
>
> I verified code for key bindings
> (https://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=etc/keystrokes.cfg;hb=HEAD)
>
> and it effectively offers two clever options to go full screen on multi
> displays.
>
>  > 4 <keystroke action="switch_all_screens" Control="1" AltMeta="1"
> key="f" />
>  > 5 <keystroke action="fullscreen" Control="1" Shift="1" AltMeta="1"
> key="f" />
>
> Here is two wiki patches to help clarify documentation around full
> screen usage
> on multi display setups. Feel free to rephrase any way you want.
>
> --
> Olivier
>
> --
> doc/usage/x2goclient.txt
> 70c70,71
> <   * Ctrl + Alt + F: toggle fullscreen/windowed
> ---
>  >   * Ctrl + Alt + F: toggle windowed/fullscreen over all screens
>  >   * Shift + Ctrl + Alt + F: toggle windowed/fullscreen on current
> screen only
>
> doc/usage/multi-display.txt
> 19a20,26
>  >
>  > ===== Use keyboard shortcuts to go fullscreen over one or all
> displays  =====
>  >
>  > There is two different ways to enter fullscreen from keyboard
> shortcuts. One goes fullscreen over all screens, the other goes
> fullscreen only on current screen.
>  >
>  >   * Ctrl + Alt + F: toggle windowed/fullscreen over all screens
>  >   * Shift + Ctrl + Alt + F: toggle windowed/fullscreen on current
> screen only
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