Ubuntu
unity package

cannot go fullscreen for flash videos

Bug #631381 reported by Omer Akram
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
High
Jason Smith
Unity 2010-09-16 "0.2.38"
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Canonical Desktop Experience Team
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10
Maverick
Fix Released
High
Canonical Desktop Experience Team
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

either youtube or megavideo or any other video website I cannot switch to fullscreen in Unity session. works fine in gnome session

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.34-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 6 13:50:42 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100902.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/maverick/unity
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :
Omer Akram (om26er)
summary: - cannot go to fullscreen for flash videos
+ cannot go fullscreen for flash videos
Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

Added to get it tracked for maverick.

Changed in unity:
milestone: none → 2010-09-09
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
Changed in unity (Ubuntu Maverick):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Experience Team (canonical-dx-team)
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David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

Sounds similar to the bug that was causing Flash to exit fullscreen when n-osd was displaying notifications. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/359760

Changed in unity:
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
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David Barth (dbarth) wrote :

Jason: it seems to me that mutter and Unity interact with the fullscreen flash player in a similar way. Can you investigate whether this is a fundamental assumption of mutter/unity or whether that's fixable this cycle?

Changed in unity:
assignee: Jason Smith (jassmith) → nobody
assignee: nobody → Jason Smith (jassmith)
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Jason Smith (jassmith) wrote :

Looking into it

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 631381] Re: cannot go fullscreen for flash videos

No, fullscreen Flash worked fine until a recent change in Unity or
Mutter, while the flash/notify-osd issue has been around forever.

Mark

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
milestone: 2010-09-09 → 2010-09-16
Jason Smith (jassmith)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 0.2.40-0ubuntu1

---------------
unity (0.2.40-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Fix inactive menus accessible (LP: #604505)
    - Fix some more memory leaks (LP: #604777, #621690, #628144)
    - Fix weird behaviors of quicklist (LP: #617339)
    - Provide an "open this folder" button (LP: #633201)
    - Hidden menu causing gap (LP: #600191)
    - Cannot go fullscreen for flash videos (LP: #631381)
    - Can't access menu items from the keyboard (LP: #636728)
    - Don't register for MDRAGs since they aren't used (LP: #632613)
    - Don't run indicator on special launchers (LP: #627488)
    - Center arrows position in folded launcher tiles (LP: #633084)
    - Launcher icons first appear as white upon login (LP: #601093)
    - Removes jittering when rubber band is in use on the launcher (LP: #632991)
    - Mutter restarts on closing almost any application (LP: #634701)
    - Can't launch apps like synaptic with root privileges from launch bar
      (LP: #599298)
    - Launcher tile dragging shouldn't be masked (LP: #631443)
    - Fix Carousel-ed icons have distorted perspective (LP: #607515)
    - Use no longer sync call (LP: #620011)
  * update debian/libunity0.symbols
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:02:54 +0200

Changed in unity (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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belal (belal-kalash) wrote :

in youtube it works great but many sites the fullscreen still doesn't work (facebook dailymotion vimeo)

Changed in unity:
status: Fix Released → Incomplete
Jerone Young (jerone)
Changed in unity:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

the video actually goes to fullscreen but does not get focus. in vimeo or magavideo

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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote :

I can confim that this is fixed in Unity (flash videos can go fullscreen without the window being automatically closed), however new windows don't always get focus, hence unity won't hide or the window won't be shown straight away. I've opened a new bug for that #642994.

I'm closing this one again as the issue here is fixed, please subscribe to the other bug to track the fixes with focusing new windows.

Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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