Bug 510289

Summary:	rfe: add capability to extend desktop to a virtual display
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Timms <dtimms>
Component:	control-center	Assignee:	Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	bnocera, control-center-maint, rstrode
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Description David Timms 2009-07-08 15:29:31 UTC

Description of problem:
Various devices and software allow us to share our desktop via vnc like mechanisms. Allow gnome-display-properties to provide ui to allow the user to extend the screen onto a virtual vnc display.

Expected results:
Eg a video conference system can send presentation material to a far site. the user selects virtual display, extend and lays out screen usage on to displays as if the displays were physical displays.

text indicator could mention the ip address,port to connect to, and offer to open the port on the local firewall. the vc unit would then connect to this part of the defined screen via vnc and transmit only material in that part of the screen to the far site.

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Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2010-11-11 13:40:11 UTC

I'm afraid this is far from being the use case for the display preferences in GNOME. The display preferences only deal with actual, physical, outputs, not with virtual ones.