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http://unix.stackexchange.com – I run awesome WM on Ubuntu Recently when I try and watch full screen youtube videos they have been playing in a small letter box - They have not 'full screened' Vimeo & Dailymotion videos still fullscreen correctly. This is NOT the problem of a youtube video appearing 'behind' the browser. I already have that fix in my rc.lua: -- Fix for youtube fullscreen in chrome: { rule = { instance = "exe" }, properties = { floating = true } }, Applies to Chrome and Firefox. What is going on? And how can I view youtube videos full screen again? (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 12/18/2012

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I'm running arch linux on my box. I use the awesome window manager, which is a tiling wm, but allows floating windows too.

The arch linux awesome wiki tells me to put the following in my awesome rc.lua too make youtube's fullscreen be floating by default:

{ rule = { instance = "plugin-container" }, properties = { floating = true } },

Yet this doesn't seem to be working.

If you want to view a youtube video in full size, without all the other stuff from youtube surrounding the video, just do the following.

Using this URL about Amazon EC2 as an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBajLxeKqoY

Just change the URL from the above, to this:

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My problem:

- I can go to youtube.com on Firefox 3.5.6 OR Google Chrome 4.0.249.43 - I can play videos on the web page (like normal) - If I click the full screen button next to the volume or HD button, the screen goes black, the video plays, but the video does not expand full screen.

I am having the same problem. Started right after a dist-upgrade that had a new version of chrome. When I try YouTube on Iceweasel, the videos are just fine. And it appears to only be a problem with YouTube videos. Videos hosted on other sites are unaffected.