"toggle fullscreen mode" keyboard shortcut not honoured

[Alex Peters]

I have opened the Keyboard Shortcuts window and assigned Shift+F11 to the "toggle fullscreen mode" action.

If I then focus a maximisable window that doesn't use the Shift+F11 key combination for anything else, pressing that key combination does not result in the window becoming full-screen.

I have tried this with Firefox, GNOME Terminal (after disabling the built-in "fullscreen mode" keyboard shortcut), Nautilus and GnuCash, all to no avail.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 1 20:40:49 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-06 (26 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
 deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
 indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2

[William Ranvaud (wiranvaud)]

Confirming the bug, reproduced the error: full screen mode short-cut not triggering full screen.

Could be related to the following:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/546688

http://askubuntu.com/questions/75558/toggle-fullscreen-mode-doesnt-work-in-11-10

[bitinerant (bitinerant)]

I don't know how they got in the state, but two applications (Thunderbird and TortoiseHG) got very stuck in fullscreen mode (not just maximized, but 100% of my LCD). No amount of F11, maximize, moving, rebooting, etc. would unstick them. I worked around it by editing config files (.thunderbird/<profile>/localstore.rdf and .config/TortoiseHg/TortoiseHgQt.ini), but it was a pain and a simple alt-F11 configured in System Settings would have REALLY nice, especially if it happens again.

[scrawl (scrawl-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 14.04.

A workaround is to open Compiz Config Settings Manager, enable the "Extra WM Actions" plugin, then assign a key to "Toggle Fullscreen".

[Zhart (zhart)]

> This bug still exists in Ubuntu 14.04.

Ubuntu 16.04 - the same thing