[Resolved][dwm] Flash Fullscreen Issue

Astrodomine · 2008-11-20 03:13:02

The fullscreen mode with flash applications (youtube) does not work properly in dwm. I assume that the fullscreen window is not floating by default. I would have to add the window class to the dwm rules but how do I find a window class? I googled but found nothing.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Astrodomine (2008-11-20 14:03:10)

rson451 · 2008-11-20 03:58:04

I just toggle to the floating layout first, then hit the fullscreen button. Works for me.

Last edited by rson451 (2008-11-20 03:59:27)

elmer_42 · 2008-11-20 04:26:11

I know there's a command for getting a window's information, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

thayer · 2008-11-20 05:34:08

elmer_42 wrote:

I know there's a command for getting a window's information, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

xprop

rson451 · 2008-11-20 12:58:06

elmer_42 wrote:

I know there's a command for getting a window's information, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

As thayer said, xprop will get the info, problem is that any keyboard or mouse action makes the full screen flash go away (at least for me anyway).

Astrodomine · 2008-11-20 14:02:53

thayer wrote:

elmer_42 wrote:
I know there's a command for getting a window's information, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
xprop

Thanks alot! I will try that tonight.

riivo · 2009-10-24 08:36:33

Did you get it working (a year ago)? I have a similar problem now. Full screen flash player closes itself immediately in dwm.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-24 10:01:56

i dunno if you're having quite the same problem. my flash was closing itself immediately on entering fullscreen mode recently, also. i would get error messages about xid collision: trouble ahead. upgrading to the firefox in testing sorted it out for me. well, swiftfox, but i think close enough not to matter.

riivo · 2009-10-24 21:37:45

Yes, it's the same behaviour. Could you be more precise to which package you upgraded? I cannot find neither firefox nor swiftfox in testing. And I have the current swiftfox-i686 from AUR, but it has the same issue.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-24 22:30:59

i think it has been moved to [extra] but was in [testing] at the time i upgraded. version number is 3.5.3-1. i also have swiftfox-prescott from aur built on firefox 3.5, and no problems with that. what version number do you have? if i remember correctly, that is the only package related that i upgraded, flash-plugin was not upgraded.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-25 02:07:31

i apologize, it wasn't an update, i made a fix and added it as an alias:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 swiftfox

just added it as alias swiftfox = 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 swiftfox' so i didn't have to type it every time. lemme know if this works or not.

riivo · 2009-10-25 09:40:32

I have also 3.5.3, both firefox and swiftfox. And the issue presists even if I run swiftfox with the command you gave. It's also the same with Midori.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-25 21:41:45

hmm that's weird. could you run swiftfox from the command line and post any error output you get?

riivo · 2009-10-26 09:01:42

Unfortunately there's no output what so ever (neither form swiftfox not firefox). Odd thing is though that swiftfox creates the full screen flash window to the desktop on which the browser is, but firefox creates the full screen flash window always to desktop (or should I say tag) 9. Full screen flash works fine in other window managers.

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-26 21:10:42

strange that it works in other window managers. does gnash do the same thing in dwm, or is it only adobe flash? i know that gnash isn't quite up to par, just trying to figure out if it is a problem with adobe flash + dwm or *any* flash in dwm.

riivo · 2009-10-27 11:09:30

It works fine with gnash. What other testing could I do?

umpalumpa1985 · 2009-10-29 02:56:11

hmmm i dunno, considering that adobe flash is closed source. i dunno if flash keeps error logs. in any case, i think that the errors would be in firefox's log.

rawing · 2009-11-08 11:53:17

I have the similar issue
Removing all firefox rules from rules[] doesn't help.

dawn · 2009-11-09 16:08:06

I suspect it's a problem with the latest version of dwm. I have dwm 5.7.2 on one computer and the previously described problem occurs, but on another computer with 5.6 fullscreen flash works normally.

riivo · 2009-11-09 20:08:05

Oddly it works on some sites (I guess it depends on the flash player).

orschiro · 2009-12-21 22:18:03

Any proceedings concerning this problem?

It is quite very annoying to not be able to view flash videos in fullscreen.

orschiro · 2010-02-07 16:15:56

Just another update. Did somebody of you try the latest flashplugin-prerelease from AUR? Perhaps adobe fixed it already in their alpha versions.

I would have tried it but it's not available for x86_64.

ccc1 · 2010-02-07 18:05:50

that's a bug in dwm. see:

http://lists.suckless.org/dev/0912/2687.html

orschiro · 2010-02-07 18:24:28

Well I asked the developer the same and they confirmed that it is a problem with flash itself and has to be fixed from adobes side.

ccc1 · 2010-02-07 18:41:46

orschiro wrote:

Well I asked the developer the same and they confirmed that it is a problem with flash itself and has to be fixed from adobes side.

so you wrote anselm after he replied to the question on the mailing list. i see.
guess this will take adobe ages to fix ...

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