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Old 11-24-2015, 01:49 PM   #1
Red Squirrel
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Some video sites, when I go full screen it goes on the wrong monitor


How do I force videos to go full screen on the actual monitor that I'm watching it on? I noticed that often it goes to the first monitor, instead of going the the middle one, which is the one I have my browser in. Youtube seems to be ok, but most other video sites not so much.

Here's an example:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=289_1448280629

If I go full screen, instead of going full screen on my main (middle) monitor, it goes to the left one. VERY annoying. In general, I find multi monitor can be very flaky like this, stuff does not always open where it should. Is there a way to gain better control over this? I want stuff to open on whatever monitor the cursor is on, because that is where it was initiated from. Even Windows fails hard at this.

Distro is Linux Mint 17.1 Mate.

This used to work ok, it's only in the past week or so that it started acting like this.

Last edited by Red Squirrel; 11-24-2015 at 01:53 PM.
 
Old 11-29-2015, 06:43 AM   #2
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Can confirm i have the same issue under arch linux with cinnamon watching the same video, disturbing as it was.

My only suggestion would be to use a window manager like i3 to more rigidly control window placement, unfortunately flash video's tend to have a mind of their own, HTML5 video's seem fine
 
Old 11-30-2015, 01:34 AM   #3
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I noticed Youtube html5 player does the same too but only if the video is embedded in another site. If it's on Youtube then it's fine.

And yeah maybe that was not the best example video. :P it's a bit NSFL (low quality vid of guy falling). It just happened to be one linked off Reddit when I noticed the issue.

Never heard of i3, is there another name it goes by, I imagine that will be hard to search for as all I'll get is stuff related to cpus.
 
Old 11-30-2015, 11:41 PM   #4
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3_28window_manager%29
 
Old 12-01-2015, 01:21 AM   #5
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Flash videos, especially in iceweasel maximize on the monitor on the left. Use xrandr to place your secondary/external monitor on the right if you want to maximize the video on the main monitor. For eg. For my laptop monitor eDP1 and external monitor VGA1 i use,

Code:
xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --output VGA1 --auto --left-of eDP1
in order to view a video on the larger external monitor.
 
Old 03-03-2016, 10:38 PM   #6
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i3 sounds interesting.... I've been facing other issues such as code:blocks dialog boxes ending up all over the place except for the monitor I'm actually working on... will i3 fix these type of issues as well? I'm actually contemplating going back to a single monitor setup and using Raspberry Pis (the 3 is out, it sounds quite powerful) with Synergy or separate keyboard/mouse (not really enough room on my desk for that though) to control the side monitors just because of how frustrating it is dealing with windows and dialogs ending up wherever they want instead of the primary monitor.
 
  


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