Hi,
Recently I upgraded my Linux system from Fedora 7 to Fedora 10. One of the
changes which annoyed me was that suddenly, full-screen-mode mplayer
(mplayer -fs) no longer worked, and just showed a small window as usual.
I looked at all the "usual suspects" (nvidia driver, xorg, XVideo extension,
etc.) but none of those seemed to be broken.
Finally, I found the real problem: full-screen mode in recent versions of
mplayer does not work on ctwm (3.8a) :(
If you also have this problem, the following option will miraculously
bring back full-screen mode to work:
mplayer -fstype=none -fs ...
Apparently, when a recent version of mplayer tries to draw to the full screen,
instead of just doing the "obvious" thing (opening a new override-redirect
window the size of the whole screen), it attempts to be smart and communicate
with the window manager the fact that it tries to open a full-screen window,
and does so with a long list of bizarre (non-ICCCM) techniques (see mplayer
manual, "-fstype" section). Apparantly these techniques either don't work on
ctwm, or work badly. I don't know if it's mplayer's or ctwm's fault (I didn't
try to debug the problem).
I'll also send a bug report to the mplayer folks, but I thought that I can't
be the only one on this list who faced this problem, so it might be helpful
that I also mention the workaround here.
Nadav.
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