Gnome Panel shows in fullscreen mode

[Sebastian Bugiu]

Binary package hint: vlc

It continues showing until I make click on the screen. Seems to happen if I switch to another application than Vlc then switch back and go to fullscreen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: vlc-nox 1.1.9-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 1 05:10:58 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vlc
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 LANG=ro_RO.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-14 (16 days ago)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Does it work any better if you run VLC as:
$ vlc --no-embedded-video
?

Can you attach the X11 properties of the "buggy" fullscreen window (run "xprop" then click on the window)?

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

the command vlc --no-embedded-video seriously affects everything: the video no longer plays (I hear the sound but see nothing but the vlc icon on the screen), the window moves from small to fullscreen but still displays the title bar and the default vlc icon while playing the movie (and still no image just sound). I cannot watch anything with this parameter. And what is worse I cannot get out of vlc from fullscreen unless I close the application.

This is the output from the terminal when running vlc --no-embedded-video&

VLC media player 1.1.9 The Luggage (revision exported)
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_ADDRESS")
Blocked: call to unsetenv("DBUS_ACTIVATION_BUS_TYPE")
[0x8ee518c] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
Warning: call to srand(1305020834)
Warning: call to rand()
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")

(process:4259): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
 Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "")
[0x8f8e564] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x31834c0)
[0x8f8e564] signals interface error: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]
[0x8f8e564] signals interface error: signal 17 overriden (0x31834c0)
[0x8f8e564] signals interface error: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(?)[(nil)]

[mime (michael+launchpad-mimeit)]

Version 1.2.0~~git20110507+r610-0~r24~natty1 (from ppa:videolan/master-daily) fixes this bug for me (11.04, gnome classic, no effects, proprietary nvidia driver)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

Of course, with --no-embedded-video, the video is not embedded... so the main UI shows the cone. You need to look at the dedicated video window!

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

And even if I do look at the fullscreen separate window, if I move the mouse then I get the player window with the icon. And I can no longer do anything and I have to kill the application.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I can reproduce this bug in vlc 1.1.9 by double clicking the video (going fullscreen). Moving the mouse lets the gnome panel appear. This is fixed in vlc 1.1.10.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted vlc into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Sebastian Bugiu (sebastian-bugiu)]

Seems to be fixed by the proposed update, at least in my case.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2

---------------
vlc (1.1.9-1ubuntu1.2) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport PulseAudio output plugin rewrite to fix memory leak. (LP: #743323)
  * ASX: fix NULL derefence (LP: #785979)
  * Qt: undo the FSC/KDE workaround (LP: #774581)
  * Add Firefox 4 compatibility (LP: #722690)
 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:04:10 +0200

[kurapix (warren.levin)]

Bug present in Precise Pangolin.

No need to interact with the computer.

1 - Launch your video using VLC
2 - Press 'F' to go in fullscreen
3 - Wait
4 - gnome-panel show

Precise Pangolin 64-bits fully updated as of 4th of March 2012.

[hdpq (defectoscopny)]

I also have this problem in Precise.

[oriolpont (oriolpont)]

I experience this bug in precise, but not only with vlc but also with totem or mplayer, so it is obviously not a vlc bug.
It is present in unity and gnome classic, but only under compiz. So using gnome-panel with metacity is a workaround (alt+F2 "metacity --replace")

[Rémi Denis-Courmont (rdenis)]

This is probably a different and new bug. Please open a new bug. Things would become very confusing otherwise.

(Besides upstream GNOME is probably not reading Launchpad directly)