Description of problem: When playing a file when I'm in MATE doesn't exit the full screen mode. The only thing that exits to window mode is double clicking with the mouse cursor in the clip when the clip's playing. The ESC key/button on the keyboard works fine otherwise. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.10-1 How reproducible: All the time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open VLC. 2. Play a clip. 3. Double click in the player window to switch to Full screen mode. 4. Press ESC to exit to window mode. 5. Nothing happens.
Created attachment 11706 [details] LSHW output
lspcidrake shows: usbhid : Lenovo|Lenovo Black Silk USB Keyboard [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Keyboard] hid_generic : Lenovo Lenovo Black Silk USB Keyboard hid_generic : Lenovo Lenovo Black Silk USB Keyboard
I'm using kernel 5.7.1-desktop-1.mga7 rebuilt from Cauldron and the same problem happens with the latest official kernel in Mageia 7 as well.
I checked that the hotkeys in VLC are properly set and they are.
Please can you clarify whether this problem happens with Mageia 7 (comment 3) or Cauldron/M8 (Version) or both? And since you have tried different kernels, can you say whether it happened with older ones, or is a recent problem? I can then try the relevant possibilities.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
(In reply to Lewis Smith from comment #5) > Please can you clarify whether this problem happens with Mageia 7 (comment > 3) or Cauldron/M8 (Version) or both? > And since you have tried different kernels, can you say whether it happened > with older ones, or is a recent problem? > I can then try the relevant possibilities. Sorry. My bad. This happens in Mageia 7 regardless of what kernel I use so I suspect that this is a problem with VLC itself. I have searched on trac.videolan.org, but could not find any similar bug besides one in Mac OS with a similar behaviour.
Version: Cauldron => 7
Closing as invalid. With vlc, the escape key is not intended to be used to exit from full screen. As shown by the view menu, the key for toggling full screen mode on or off is the f11 key. Pressing f11 while in full screen mode is working to return to normal mode here.
CC: (none) => davidwhodginsStatus: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID
(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #7) > Closing as invalid. With vlc, the escape key is not intended to be used to > exit > from full screen. As shown by the view menu, the key for toggling full screen > mode on or off is the f11 key. Pressing f11 while in full screen mode is > working > to return to normal mode here. Tried your solution to press F11 when in fullscreen mode and nothing happens.
Does that keyboard require holding down the fn key to toggle the key so that it acts as f11 rather then some other function?
Resolution: INVALID => (none)Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #9) > Does that keyboard require holding down the fn key to toggle the key so that > it acts as f11 rather then some other function? Tried that and still nothing happens.
Install the package xev if it isn't already installed. Open a terminal such as konsole, and run the xev command from there. It will show a number of key and focus events the Xorg has detected. Click on the xev window to ensure it has focus. Press and release the f11 key. The terminal will show additional output for the key press and release. Does the key press show something similar to KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x4e00001, root 0x6bf, subw 0x0, time 962764681, (347,597), root:(445,626), state 0x0, keycode 95 (keysym 0xffc8, F11), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False The keycode is the main thing to confirm.
Created attachment 11707 [details] Output for xev when pressing F11
Now what?
Just realized we were discussing two different things. I was referring to f11 from the view menu bar entry, which not fullscreen, but fullscreen interface (hides the menu bar), still displays the controls. The as fullscreen option is available as a toggle from the video menu entry. On my system, selecting fullscreen from the video menu hides everything except the video. With that, pressing the esc key does exit fullscreen on my system. Please confirm using xev that the esc key generates the keycode ... KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x7e00001, root 0x6bf, subw 0x0, time 965705209, (162,-19), root:(260,10), state 0x0, keycode 9 (keysym 0xff1b, Escape), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) " XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) " XFilterEvent returns: False
If the keycode is the same, the next step is to close vlc, then run mv ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlcold That will reset vlc to using it's default settings the next time it starts. Then test vlc again.
(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #15) > If the keycode is the same, the next step is to close vlc, then run > mv ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlcold > > That will reset vlc to using it's default settings the next time it starts. > Then test vlc again. Weird. Doing that and restarting VLC made it work. Close as fixed or is there a patch needed for future releases? I mean, this problem will happen before you use this solution.
That just means there was some configuration change that caused the problem. If you would like figure out what changed, install and run kdiff3 ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlcold Closing the bug again as invalid, since no changes were to vlc were required.
Resolution: (none) => INVALIDStatus: REOPENED => RESOLVED