Awesome & youtube

Question

I run Awesome WM on Ubuntu.

Recently when I try to watch youtube videos in full screen they have been playing in a small letter box - They have not 'full screened'.

In the other hand, Vimeo & Dailymotion videos work correctly.

NOTICE! This is NOT the problem of a youtube video appearing 'behind' the browser. I already have that fix in my rc.lua:

 -- Fix for youtube fullscreen in chrome:
{
  rule = {
    instance = "exe"
  },
  properties = { floating = true }
},

This applies to Chrome and Firefox.

How can I fix the issue so I can view youtube videos in full screen mode again?

Are you using awesome in tiling more? Could you try with a different layout just to be sure. — Sardathrion - against SE abuse, Dec 18 '12 at 08:03

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '12 at 14:43

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I happened to stumble upon this issue from time to time. Usually, I simply maximize the (small) player window using mod + M while the video is playing. Although this is only a workaround and does not fix the issue (it never annoyed me enough to dig deeper).

answered Dec 18 '12 at 14:43

Axel Knauf

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mod + M doesn't improve things for me – andy boot Dec 18 '12 at 19:13
@andyboot How so? Does Mod4 + f work for you to toggle fullscreen? (You'll have to scroll down a bit to the "Default Key Bindings" section in the link.) – Axel Knauf Dec 19 '12 at 15:11
mod4+f does toggle fullscreen. and mod+m does maximize [at least for all the other applications] but the youtube video doesn't get any bigger. – andy boot Dec 19 '12 at 15:17
Does it work correctly when you use floating mode before starting fullscreen from the player (if not already tried)? – Axel Knauf Dec 19 '12 at 15:43
nice idea but no. I just tried. – andy boot Dec 20 '12 at 17:19

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