[gutsy] Can't exit from fullscreen

[Michael Wood]

When using Totem, occasionally it can't exit from fullscreen mode. The best way I have been able to reproduce this consistently is by using --fullscreen. This also happens when using vmplayer in full screen.

The application tries to exit but flicks back to full screen immediately. I am using fully up to date gutsy install.

2.6.22-14-generic x86_64
nvidia drivers are installed

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, are you using compiz? does it happen without it?

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

No I am not using Compiz.

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

I don't think it's worth assigning this to totem yet as it happens with other applications.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've managed to reproduce the bug with totem, confirming. thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487931

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

Also reference this bug, of which the above was marked a duplicate.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376149

I suggest this bug receive a higher priority. It is difficult to exit a video when totem fails to release full-screen mode. It sometimes become necessary to login a console (alt-f1) and kill the totem process.

I can reproduce this bug (repeatedly with the --fullscreen, and occasionally without it), and I am running Feisty AMD64 with Ubuntu-supplied NVIDIA proprietary drivers.

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

Oops -- contrary to what I said about having to kill the process, one can also press ALT-F4 to exit.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is not a high priority one, it's easy to workaround and it looks like there is not many users running into it

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

This has stopped happening lately, for me at least. Perhaps one of the updates fixed the issue?

[thouters (thomas-langewouters)]

Every time I opened Totem it started fullscreen, with two progressbars simultaneously.
Simply running rm ~/.gnome2/Totem/state.ini fixed this nasty problem for me.

[Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig)]

This bug is no longer effecting me. I believe it stopped when I started using the NVIDIA official driver, instead of the Ubuntu Restricted driver.

[Ask Greve Jørgensen (askgreve)]

I was experiencing this bug to day, trying to view several different video files.

Rebooting, logging out, etc. had no effect, but executing the following command solved the problem:

rm ~/.gnome2/Totem/state.ini

I just wanted to confirm the bug, by the way, I am using Desktop-effects (compiz) if it has any importance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed upstream, thanks for reporting

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

fixed on hardy, thanks for reporting.

[jonathon (jon23d)]

I've just encountered this problem for the first time. Moving state.ini fixed.