Bug 814483

Summary:	RFE: Hide menu bar to get more space for virtual screen
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Tom Horsley <horsley1953>
Component:	virt-viewer	Assignee:	Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
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Description Tom Horsley 2012-04-20 00:52:42 UTC

Description of problem:

A virt-viewer (or remote-viewer) window uses space for the menu bar that would be more useful for the actual virtual machine window. This is most annoying for me on my 1920x1080 display since a 1280x1024 virtual machine won't quite fit (but it would fit if I could get back the menu bar space).

It would be really handy if there was a way to hide the menu bar, and even handier if there was a command line option to go with it so I could start with the menu bar hidden.

The remote-viewer program could also benefit from having a -title command line option I could use to give the window a title containing the name of the virtual machine (something I happen to know when I start remote-viewer which I could provide today without waiting for some hypothetical protocol extension to provide the VM name).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.2-1.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
The menu bar never goes away :-).

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual results:
window too cluttered with space I'd like to use for other things

Expected results:
all my screen space are belong to me

Additional info:

This bug originated from the thread in bug 811384.

Comment 1 Tom Horsley 2013-01-20 03:21:48 UTC

Just bumping this to fedora 18 since it still seems to have no way to hide the menu bar.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2013-12-16 19:19:07 UTC

Since this is an RFE, moving to the upstream tracker

Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2019-03-21 15:03:13 UTC

This will be fixed when we finally change the UI to use the GtkHeaderBar widget from GTK3. I really want to get this done soon....

Comment 4 Daniel Berrangé 2021-04-21 14:20:07 UTC

Release 10.0 switched to GtkHeaderBar and eliminated the menu entirely. When running full screen the header auto-hides giving 100% of screen real estate to the guest.