mplayer & xfwm4

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sun Oct 20 18:55:17 CEST 2002


Hi,

In fact, xfwm4 implements the standard and recognize the fullscreen hint
as defined in the freedesktop standard version 1.2 but mplayer doesn't
use the standard...

It's not so surprising since very few wm implements the standard btw.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 18:25, Horn Gábor wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to as for your help/advice in connection w/ mplayer & xfwm4. I
> use xfwm4 as wm, gnome-panel (from gnome2) as panel. When i play a movie
> w/ mplayer (-vo xv) and switch to fullscreen the panels stays on top (on
> the top and bottom of screen). So the movie plays 'behind' them. I was
> told maybe xfwm4 doesn't recognise a hint (?) that says it to put
> mplayer to fullscreen. 
> 
> Is there a way to watch movies fullscreen w/ the above config, please?
> 
> Thanks, hirisov
> 
> 
> 
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