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roina

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Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 25

[Solved] Chromium Fullscreen bug

Hi everybody!
Please help me to resolve chromium bug.
After going to fullscreen by pressing F11 everything OK.
But after returning to windowed screen by pressing F11 again chromium disappears from the screen and becomes unaccessable.
But it still remains running in the list of precesses and its icon seen under Alt-Tab switching.
This bug exist even in empty window with no URL connected.

Linux 3.15.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 GNU/Linux

Window manager: openbox 3.5.2-6 (lxde) [installed]

Also idesk program for icons running.

Last edited by roina (2014-09-17 19:05:15)

Sam_DM

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Registered: 2014-03-09

Posts: 13

Re: [Solved] Chromium Fullscreen bug

Maybe you tried this already, but this worked for me :

Open the chromium menu on the top right corner of the screen and go to "Settings" (or type "chrome://settings/" in the address bar).
In the settings, scroll to the bottom and click "show advanced settings", then scroll further down and disable the option "use hardware acceleration when available".

I know that disabling hardware acceleration is not a full a solution, but at least i got rid of the same bug that you have by doing so

Let me know if it worked for you

Last edited by Sam_DM (2014-08-16 12:56:33)

roina

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Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 25

Re: [Solved] Chromium Fullscreen bug

Sam_DM, thank you for help, but it doesn't work.
This bug takes place on 3 PC that I use, 2 of them with Intel video and the rest with Nvidia card.
On one of Intel PC you suggestion leads to different behavior of chromium. After disappearing  it becomes possible to return browser to a visible state by another pressing F11. Ironically, even if you method worked it was useless for me, because I use chromium only for one online game which supports hardware acceleration under linux only in chromium. But my main browser is firefox.
Also I examined chromium on the same computers under ubuntu live distribution and it worked fine.
Therefore I conclude that something wrong in chromium package for archlinux or maybe more installed supported programs needed.

I shall try to report a bug to chromium officials but don't have experience in that.

roina

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Registered: 2010-06-04

Posts: 25

Re: [Solved] Chromium Fullscreen bug

This bug was fixed.