How to view Youtube in Fullscreen ? (for dummies)

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jamie

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Oct 26, 2016, 5:15:53 PM10/26/16
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does not matter if I use fedora, debian or whonix ... whenever I press fullscreen on any youtube video the brower freezes..

it also does not matter which browser I use firefox, chromium,...
all of them freeze.


how to watch youtube videos 'for dummies' in fullscreen ?
how to enable fullscreen mode 'for dummies' in my fedora appVM ?

raah...@gmail.com

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Oct 26, 2016, 9:31:52 PM10/26/16
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hmm I've only had the issue on firefox, maybe related? https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1502

Andrew David Wong

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Oct 27, 2016, 12:51:50 AM10/27/16
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Yes, please take a look at the issue raahelps linked.

I'm currently having no problems watching YouTube videos in fullscreen on Google Chrome in a Fedora 23 AppVM. How are you attempting to put the video into fullscreen mode? By pressing the "fullscreen" button on the video or by pressing F11?

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Robert Mittendorf

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Oct 27, 2016, 6:07:13 AM10/27/16
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You can enable full screen mode, in that mode browser fullscreen works.
The video tends to be flickering, I think because of missing hardware
acceleration.

However other applications like RDP cause problems in fullscreen mode.
In that case you cannot switch to another window without disconnecting.
If you try, the RDP viwer looses context of at least the keyboard,
sometimes of the mouse as well.
Your only chane then is to pull the plug to make FreeRDP disconnect
after a timeout.

Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)

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Oct 28, 2016, 7:14:08 AM10/28/16
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On 10/27/2016 01:31 AM, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 5:15:53 PM UTC-4, jamie wrote:
>> does not matter if I use fedora, debian or whonix ... whenever I press fullscreen on any youtube video the brower freezes..
>>
>> it also does not matter which browser I use firefox, chromium,...
>> all of them freeze.

I can confirm this issue. It's not that they freeze, they continue to
run and you can see window updates when you resize the window, but it's
simply that they stop updating after hitting that damn fullscreen
button. This is a new bug and I recommend you file a ticket in
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/new .

>>
>>
>> how to watch youtube videos 'for dummies' in fullscreen ?
>> how to enable fullscreen mode 'for dummies' in my fedora appVM ?
> hmm I've only had the issue on firefox, maybe related? https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1502
>


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blmabo

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Oct 28, 2016, 7:06:30 PM10/28/16
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I still can not get it to work??

what command do I need to type that stays permanently
I dont want to type it in over and over again

raah...@gmail.com

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Oct 28, 2016, 10:57:30 PM10/28/16
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What did you do to get it working temporarily?

Andrew David Wong

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Oct 29, 2016, 12:25:23 AM10/29/16
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On 2016-10-28 04:14, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> On 10/27/2016 01:31 AM, raah...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 5:15:53 PM UTC-4, jamie wrote:
>>> does not matter if I use fedora, debian or whonix ... whenever I press fullscreen on any youtube video the brower freezes..
>>>
>>> it also does not matter which browser I use firefox, chromium,...
>>> all of them freeze.
>
> I can confirm this issue. It's not that they freeze, they continue to
> run and you can see window updates when you resize the window, but it's
> simply that they stop updating after hitting that damn fullscreen
> button. This is a new bug and I recommend you file a ticket in
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/new .
>

Issue filed: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2406

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FWM

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Jan 22, 2017, 6:13:06 AM1/22/17
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BUMP,

I also have this problem.
Cant fullscreen youtube in firefox.
+ once fullscreen is clicked, the browser become unresponsive.
Forced to close browser and re-open.

01v3g4n10

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Jan 22, 2017, 11:00:27 AM1/22/17
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You can right click on the top of the window border and set fullscreen or use alt+space and select fullscreen. Or you can use this guide as long as long as you understand the potential security risk.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/full-screen-mode/

daltong defourne

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Jan 23, 2017, 4:01:41 AM1/23/17
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Right click on window border, choose fullscreen
The browser window goes fullscreen

NOW press the video's fullscreen button
The video will now go into fullscreen on a fullscreen window and all will be right with the world.

P.S.:
If you're running on intel IGFX, it may require some annoying tuning to get youtube working "just right" (without tearing, etc)

justin.h...@gmail.com

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Jan 31, 2017, 2:35:00 AM1/31/17
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I'm pretty interested in doing some of that "annoying tuning." Do you have any suggestions? Anywhere I should be looking?

4mbwa...@gmail.com

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Jan 31, 2017, 5:33:36 AM1/31/17
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I Don't know anything about tuning the Intel graphics, but for me updating to firefox 51 cut my cpu usage in half (and runs much better than chrome which I used before). I think they improved software rendering dramaticaly in this update which is only available for fedora 24 I think.

01v3g4n10

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Jan 31, 2017, 9:40:43 AM1/31/17
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I've created /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf in dom0 and placed the below lines in it. Solved the tearing for me, but ymmv.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Intel_Graphics

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