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. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Jan 6 2009, 10 Tevet 5769 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Tea or coffee? Coffee, without cream. It http://nadav.harel.org.il |will be without milk, we have no cream.