Adobe Flash plugin: no full screen

Question

in my Lubuntu 13.04 (with Gnome Shell 3.8), Flash videos won't go to full screen in certain Flash players (i.e. on certain sites). - Actually in most players, that means it doesn't work at all. Upon left-click on the fullscreen-button, I see a flicker as if it did got to full-screen, but then it stays standard size, kinda like a pop-up ad being killed by ad-block. - Some players have a "toggle fullscreen" option available on right-click menu, this is the only option that works for me now. In this case, I have to press and hold the right mouse button and release it over the "fullscreen" menu entry. The menu disappears when releasing the mouse button. - Only exception I found so far: Youtube, which works normally with left click on the fullscreen-button. My current Flash-plugin version is 11.2.202.285ubuntu0.13.04.1. I wonder if Gnome Shell might be messing with Flash? Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Edit: this problem is present in Firefox, Opera and Chromium browsers. The graphics card I'm using (as reported in Gnome settings > details) is GeForce 8100/nForce720a/integrated/SSE2

Solution

I found the following solution which worked perfectly for me:

Workaround fo this:

1. Install devilspie (via Terminal:)

   sudo apt-get install devilspie
   

2. Write config for firefox (via Terminal:)

   mkdir ~/.devilspie
   nano ~/.devilspie/flash-fullscreen-firefox.ds
   
   (if
   (is (application_name) "plugin-container")
   (begin
   (focus)
   )
   )
   

3. Make devilspie autostart

Done.

Solution from: https://plus.google.com/100368718538258540940/posts/eJWwPj8B4dX (last post)

Comments

[Bennypr0fane]

I'm stuck at step 3. How do you make a command line appplication autostart? Remember I'm on Lubuntu 13.04 with Gnome Shell.

[Bennypr0fane]

here's how I made the autostart work: in Gnome dash, search for "Startprogramme" (means autostart applications - my UI is in German!). In terminal, type: which devilspie , output: /usr/bin/devilspie . In "Startprogramme", click "add" and insert this output in the "command" field. Fullscreen Flash is now working again.