Created attachment 769353 [details] Videodemonstration Description of problem: Opening up a flash video and clicking on fullscreen works for the first time but not for the second. The pluginContainer Window of Firefox just opens in the background. (see Videodemonstration) Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Firefox and surf on a website like http://www.myvideo.de/watch/9136494/BATTLE_OF_THE_YEAR_HD_Trailer_C_Ab_21_11_13_im_Kino 2. Click to make the video fullscreen. 3. Leave fullscreen and try to go to fullscreen again. Actual results: No fullscreen video Expected results: Fullscreen video Additional info: With gnome-shell classic and the window list extension you can see the pluginContainer window in background and can bring it in front again. (so you'll see the flash video playing in fullscreen) This does not work however with alt+tab . It works btw. with other window-managers like metacity or icewm.
Have you tried Alt+` on gnome-shell to bring it to the foreground. The classic gnome is still all gnome3 shell just a different look and feel
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #1) > Have you tried Alt+` on gnome-shell to bring it to the foreground. The > classic gnome is still all gnome3 shell just a different look and feel I tried ALT+<TILDE> (the key above the tab key) but that is not helping either. As its is recognized as seperate application in the "Alt+Tab" application. Also I can navigate to that application but it has no window preview and Alt+Tab is not bringing the window into front. It seems like it is minimized or something. Btw. I also tried that with Gnome 3.6 and there it is working. So it is definitely a regression in the window manager mutter.
> Btw. I also tried that with Gnome 3.6 and there it is working. So it is > definitely a regression in the window manager mutter. Just as clearification I don't mean the ALT+Tab or Alt+<TILDE> thing here but just plain toggle fullscreen on the flashplayer plugin which works without any problem.
I confirm the same problem with Firefox 22.0 Adobe Flash Player Version: 11.2.202.297 GNOME 3.8 for all flash video. Previously worked with F19 Beta I think. No problem now with Firefox 22.0 and KDE 4.10.5. All Updated today with yum. AMD Radeon HD7950 with proprietary driver 13.6-0.1Beta.fc19 (no overlay for tvtime with the opensource driver unfortunately) Best regards, Electron.
I can confirm this problem too. gnome-shell: 3.8.3-3 mutter: 3.8.3-1 firefox: 22.0-1 flash-plugin: 11.2.202.297 Intel core i3 with no proprietary driver. For now, I am using the gnome extension "Minimized Windows List" to choose the fullscreen video. This is a workaround for those that do not use gnome-shell classic view.
Same behavior with: gnome-shell-3.8.4-2.fc19.x86_64 firefox-23.0.1-4.fc19.x86_64 flash-plugin-11.2.202.310-release.x86_64 I found out that you can put the plugin-container to foreground in the "Activities"-Menu (mouse to the left-upper-edge). You'll find the plugin-container at the end of the list/icons.
Still in gnome-shell 3.10 and firefox 24. I found a nice workaround also :) Just double click the full screen button in the flash video player (if it has a fullscreen button). Somehow this brings the window into foreground. At least it works for me but I also noticed that it does not work reliable every time.
The same issue. I'm confirming
This problem isn't in GS.
Instead of closing how about reassigning to mutter as it actually is a bug of the window manager.
We have workaround, but now I can't find original bug at BGO.. https://github.com/RussianFedora/mutter/blob/f20/fixes/mutter-3.8.3-fullscreen-flash-player.patch
We're not going to apply a random patch. It needs to be upstream and a patch in git master at the very least
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #12) > We're not going to apply a random patch. It needs to be upstream and a patch > in git master at the very least Sure, I'm also don't like such patches. I will try to find bug in BGO. *pointer = TRUE anyway bad solution. BTW, problems in flashplayer I think.
Peter, I really want to close this bug as WONTFIX, because flash-player is proprietary software. gnash-plugin always works OK in fullscreen cases. What do you think ?
I'm happy to close this as won't fix but even though it is proprietary it is still a legitimate bug that could affect other applications that aren't proprietary so I'd still like to know, for reference in this bug what the upstream bug report is.
It would be sad closing this because flash-player as buggy and proprietary as it is is working fine with other window managers (e.g. metacity) and worked before with gnome 2.x . Not fixing this bug would definitely dissatisfy the users suffering from it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700288 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643740
That needs to land upstream before we'll even consider pulling it back
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