Totem window don't appear nice maximized

[Luca Ferretti]

Currently Totem (default audio and video player in Ubuntu) is not excluded by Maximus key /apps/maximus/exclude_class
This means that any video you are going to play will be scaled to match the entire screen area, even you are watching, for example, a small 300x200 video.

I suggest to:
  A. add by now Totem to the list of window classes excluded by Maximus;
      if you want to see a video fullscreen, use the fullscreen feature (F11)
  B. open a bug against Totem (upstream) asking for an option to play the video
      at actual size,

[Justin Dugger (jldugger)]

Can you provide a screenshot of the problem? I tried with the Experience Ubuntu.ogg example video and it seems to be fine?

[Pete Goodall (pgoodall)]

I believe the plan with maximus (if it hasn't happened yet) is to allow the user to unmaximize a window as well. Unfortunately I don't have any data on the predominant resolution for a video, but I would think that most videos would be fine in full screen. I'll see if I can find a video of the resolution you mention.

[Justin Dugger (jldugger)]

"/usr/share/example-content/Experience Ubuntu.ogg" is a 360x288 ogg video. Normally I feel the poor quality is embarrassing, but here it's a bit handy.

Luca, do you feel this file demonstrates the bug adaquately?

[antistress (antistress)]

i confirm that watching a LowRes video within Totem maximized (for exemple through YouTube browser) is not nice at all.
i had to play with the right pane and extend it to reduce the main window size.
there should definitely be an option to play the video at 1:1 or 2:1 size without considering if Totem window is maximised or not

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

Newest Maximus also prevents Totem from going to full screen.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

I'm still not sure about excluding Totem from the maximize list. I guess it comes down to how many very low-res videos you play compared to medium/high-res. On the netbooks which UNR targets, it helps to have totem start maximised for the majority of videos. If this isn't your preferred behaviour, it's easy to add a rule to exclude it.

I'm not closing this as I'd like to get some more opinions...if you've been using unr/maximus with totem, has the maximised totem still bothered you after a couple of weeks use?

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

currently Totem is not maximized. Seems weird, but I'm ok with it as people could always maximize it when they want to.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

marking fix committed for now