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How to exit ‘Full Screen’ Mode in VNC

May 7, 2008 by Gautam

Seems like an easy thing, but did struggle a bit when I had to do it the first time. I assumed ‘Esc’ would do the trick, you guessed it right, I was wrong.

RealVNC is one of my favorite VNC, as it provides remote control software which lets me see and interact with desktop applications across any network.

Once I connect to any system within the network, I can select the ‘Full screen’ option to browse the other system as though ‘I’m sitting at that system’. If you have to come out of the ‘Full Screen’ mode, then press ‘F8’ and un-check ‘Full Screen’ option.

The first time I was using VNC, I had tough time figuring this out as I had missed going through the documentation, I was connected to a system which did not have internet connection and the only way (at least back then), I could come off the system was by re-booting it :).

Feels stupid :D.

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  1. Henti says

    March 14, 2013 at 2:39 pm

    CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + F works…. F8 does not seem to work for me at all.

  2. Liz says

    September 18, 2012 at 6:54 pm

    @Raghu finally an answer that worked. thanks

  3. Sravan says

    June 22, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Yes , F8 was the only option I had. Before knowing that I start the task manager kill that vnc to get the access to my PC

  4. Hemanthkumar santhamoorthy says

    August 24, 2011 at 2:48 pm

    Thanks a lot man ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. lawlsasa says

    July 2, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    Raghu you are correct.

  6. Raghu says

    March 9, 2011 at 3:36 am

    Simply pass Cntrl-Alt-Shift-F to exit from full screen. If you again pass these buttons you will enter full screen. i.e you can flip-flop full screen using these buttons!

  7. Sachin says

    December 20, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Thanks Gautam,
    Nice tip that one.. i too felt the same dumbness as I got stuck in the fullscreen mode myself.
    F8 did the trick.

    Thanks Again
    Sachin

  8. sundeep says

    October 30, 2010 at 9:46 am

    Thanks a lot, man!!
    I was also stuck and had no option other then a reboot…. but ur article proved to be a savior !!

  9. ggg says

    September 24, 2010 at 5:24 am

    Thanks buddies.

  10. unity says

    June 17, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    Just move your mouse pointer to the top edge of the screen. You will get a drop down panel. You will get the option to exit full screen there.

  11. Anon says

    January 6, 2010 at 10:04 pm

    F8 did not work for me.

    As an aside, it should not be a function key to start with. People, especially the type of peole using VNC have programs bound to function keys. Irritating.

  12. kkverma56 says

    December 31, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    F8 works man!! its great

  13. Gautam says

    December 30, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    @Darkstar .. I know how frustrated I was when I tried to figure it out for the first time .. well ‘Esc’ button wud have made it much simpler, but who knows may be the Esc keycode has some conflict and that’s the reason they have used F8 .. u never know :). glad it helped you.

  14. Darkstar says

    December 30, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    You just saved me one re-boot and lots of frustration. Must say that the F8 thing is non-intuitive.

  15. YeahMan says

    July 11, 2009 at 7:56 am

    If you don’t know about F8 you could right-click on the VNC icon in the Task Bar. (Next to the ‘Time/clock’) and then select “disconnect client”; instead of rebooting the machine….

  16. Mart says

    January 7, 2009 at 7:23 pm

    F8 defo works. Just tested it, thanks for the useful info.

  17. Gautam H N says

    September 17, 2008 at 7:51 am

    gman, I doubt if F8 works. At least it does not on when your VNCing in full screen mode on an XP with SP2 on ๐Ÿ™‚ .. Let me know under what conditions F8 works.

  18. gman says

    September 17, 2008 at 5:36 am

    simply press F8 — not intuitive but it works ๐Ÿ™‚

  19. Sanjit Nair says

    May 21, 2008 at 7:46 pm

    Sure does feel dumb ๐Ÿ˜›

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