HUD appears every 30 seconds without any interaction when playing a video in Totem / Movie Player / Firefox

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Exactly every 30 seconds, HUD appears, even if I'm not doing anything at all. It is insanely annoying, so this should be marked as critical. The time I've spent writing this it's appeared twice. I'll have to downgrade for now, because this makes my desktop almost unusable.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Someone contacted me by email on that particular issues, seems a serious one before we push the hud to distro.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

I asked him to give more info (apparently, he's using Totem). Did you notice any particular use-case Jo-Erland, like a fullscreen app?

[Hernando Torque (htorque)]

Guess that would be bug 921205.

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad (joerlend.schinstad-deactivatedaccount)]

Didier: I was actually using Totem at the time, but not exclusively and it continued afterwards. When chatting on IRC, for instance, it would suddenly appear and steal focus. Extremely annoying.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

I can confirm this too. This behavior starts after I used the HUD the first time in a session.

[AO (aofrl10n)]

This affects me too. on 12.04 fully updated. I was just watching a video using Totem, Hud would appear every few minutes for no obvious reason and steal the focus, again and again.

[UbuntuFlo (ubuntuflo)]

No problem here with the above mentioned problem. Even no problem watching fullscreen totem videos – though they are flickering a bit.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Gord, see the duplicates, seems to be a pretty popular issue with totem

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I see this behaviour too. I make it twenty seconds before the HUD pops up, whenever Totem is playing a video. The specific video on which I noticed it was: http://people.canonical.com/~ories/HUD.m4v (in case this actually has something to do with the specific video that is playing, which seems unlikely but you never know).

It's not limited to full screen for me (in fact I did not even try full screen).

It only happens when video is actually playing. When no video has been started, or it is paused, the HUD does not pop up. It does not matter whether Totem is in the foreground or in the background.

[Rohit (rohit-thomas)]

HUD appears 30 seconds or so - when playing a movie using totem, the file is on a home share server and accessed within the home network. Switched to VLC and HUD does not appear.

[Captain Chaos (launchpad-chaos)]

I just updated my system and now I am not seeing this behaviour any more.

[JG (jdogzz-g5)]

I think it went away because HUD isn't functional as of the latest updates.

[Bilal Shahid (s9iper1)]

the bug is still present my system is also updated and it comes again and again with the movie player..like when watching a movie.

[Nicholas Christian Langkjær Ipsen (ncli)]

So far, it looks to me like Ubuntu has decided that this should be fixed
upstream in Totem, and Gnome has decided that since this is(Apparently)
fixed in Totem 3.2.X, which Ubuntu won't ship with, downstream distros
which use older versions of Totem(Like Ubuntu) should patch it themselves.

[Nathan Dyer (nathandyer)]

Issue seems to be fixed after most recent Totem update.

[Kai Mast (kai-mast)]

I have this issue only when using totem 3.4 from the Gnome3 PPA

[Nuno Donato (nunodonato)]

I still have this issue as of today (updated with the most recent precise packages)

[Luis Medinas (lmedinas)]

I got this bug also with the gnome 3 ppa so it's not fixed on totem >=3.2.x

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

According to the upstream code, it appears this bug is only fixed in totem 3.5 onward.

[Jeffrey Tees (jeff-tees)]

I am seeing this bug when playing mp3 embedded in Firefox. I was reminiscing to some Amiga tracks from Oakvalleys collection and the Hud kept popping up when tracks are playing (thought I was leaning on the keyboard for a while).

Not Fullscreen mode but maximised and with a half dozen other tabs open.

I am assuming Firefox uses Totem for audio/video playback...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Yes, I believe most of the video/audio plugins in Firefox for Ubuntu are Totem.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Fix Released, indirectly via bug 923644 (which is the same root cause as this one)

This bug was fixed in the package totem - 3.0.1-0ubuntu17

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totem (3.0.1-0ubuntu17) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in:
    - don't Build-Depends on libxtst-dev so the codepath generating fake key
      events is disabled, those events lead to weird behaviours with
      some applications or the unity hud (lp: #923644)
    - drop the Build-Depends on individual girs, the libs depends on those
  * debian/patches/git_commandfix_incorrect_free.patch:
    - fix segfault with on line options use (lp: #860079, #884811, #917241)

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * Drop coherence plugin description since the plugin has been
    removed by GNOME. (LP: #827382)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:10 +0100