Gnome 3 extended Desktop (beamer) and Libreoffice Impress

Hi,
I've had a nice experience with Gnome 3 and LibreOffice Impress today on work. When I plug in the beamer via VGA the Gnome 3 desktop gets extended and that's fine. But when I want to use Libreoffice Impress in presentation mode, it only shows up on my laptops display. I think this issue is true for flash movies in Firefox as well. Is there any known fix? I guess this is a bug in Libreoffice, since EOG is showing PDF files on the extended desktop in fullscreen mode as it should.
Tobsen

LibreOffice Impress has the option to specify which display to output its presentation to.  Navigate to "SlideShow" > "Slide Show Settings".  At the bottom of the config window there is a section called "Multiple Displays".  You should be able to specify which display to output the presentation to by selecting one of the displays from the drop-down menu.  More details can be found in the LibreOffice wiki
http://help.libreoffice.org/Impress/Slide_Show_Settings

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