I have a dual monitor setup I am a noob to openSUSE, what I want to know is how I can I watch something FULL screen and work in the other screen without it minimizing in the other?
When I watch a movie or something in chrome/firefox I can full screen it on one monitor until I click somewhere on the other screen then it minimizes. How can I make it so the other screen stays FULL?
I don’t experience that issue at all (using KDE 4.10.5, openSUSE 12.2). Please tell us which desktop environment and openSUSE version you’re using.
Ditto. Dual monitors here, still on KDE 11.4. No issues watching full screen video in one while working on the other.
If on KDE (the OP didn’t say), perhaps one of the settings in KDE settings>Screen>Multiple Monitors, specially “Enable support of window maximization” will do the trick.
Yes, this affects me as well (in Firefox … don’t recall offhand if affected in Chrome too, as I primarily use Firefox for such).
One hundred percent reproducible by:
An interesting derivative behaviour of this same issue is, say with the browser on monitor 2, start the video and then go to fullscreen – the fullscreen video opens on the primary monitor (monitor 1 for argument sake)! Click any where on any other monitor, and the fullscreen video is closed, and the video continues playing in browser’s video/media player, back on monitor 2 (rolls eyes).
It might be a flash issue (I don’t know) or related to the graphics drivers’ handling of such container content …which begs the question of which drivers you are using?
moses@linux-hafb:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] [10de:0fc6] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:3553]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
moses@linux-hafb:~>
okay, prop. nvidia … I see this with the OSS radeon stack and now that I think about it, I believe I have with the intel drivers too (IIRC …I can’t test/confirm the latter right now, but believe this is also the case) … in any regard, It would appear that there isn’t a common element to the graphics hardware/driver side
I’m wondering (and will have to test it out later) if I can duplicate this using another window manager besides kwin (i.e. will test using gnome, openbox, … ) … but, for the mean time, when in doubt, blame flash lol! … (and here’s an old bit of humour regarding the state of flash under Linux: xkcd: Supported Features )
All the open source driver are installed but not necessarily loaded. If you have a NVIDIA card don’t use Intel or radeon. How ever there are machines that sometimes have both Intel and NVIDIA . They are a pain to set up bumblebee is the package that is supposed to help then
I figured it out … (It previously wasn’t clear to me simply due to the prior configuration I happened to be using (it didn’t lend itself well in order to, during operation, glean the insight), but after switching over to a xrandr provider objects based solution, it became clear what was happening).
Regardless from which monitor the browser window resides, the flash player is opening fullscreen always on the monitor that occupies the left-most and then top-most coordinate of the Screen (if unfamiliar, this abstraction is explained here). This occurs regards of monitor sizes, designation as primary or whatever. The Screen begins its coordinates (i.e. (0,0) ) at the top left of its virtual dimension. The fullscreen flash just tries to get as close to that as possible. Some examples of a quad monitor setup follow:
(a) Linear arrangement
1 2 3 4
Fullscreen flash opens on monitor 1 (i.e. primary)
(b) Linear arrangement, arbitrary position of primary monitor
2 1 3 4
Fullscreen flash opens on monitor 2
(c) 2x2 arrangement
4 3
1 2
Fullscreen flash opens on monitor 4
(d) A stairstep arrangement of monitors. Virtual dimension most be rectangular, so the monitors actually fall into a 3x2 like arrangement, with virtual or deadspace filling out the areas not occupied by physical real estate
V 3
2 1
4 V
Fullscreen flash opens on monitor 2
Are there any progress on this issue? I am running OpenSUSE 13.1 with the current KDE, and using Chromium web browser. Keeping fullscreen on one monitor and working on the other is impossible. Once I click in anything in the other monitor the fullscreen closes.
My graphic card is Intel 4000.
One solution could be one X-server for each monitor, or one KDE session for each monitor (with the ability to move windows between them if possible).
You won’t be able to move windows between the screens in either of those cases …
And while the setup of multiple X servers is elaborate, something else out of the realm of multiple servers actually provides a simple and effective solution – try Xephyr
It would be interesting to see if this improves on Wayland when it is ready.