however I have solved my problem with instaling openbox,
so after starting X and openbox, fullscreen in vlc works,
and openbox uses just 8MB disk space if I remembered corectly..
Hi all, Before I had a setup like this: just plain ubuntu server instalation with xserver-xorg and no window manager of any kind. I was able to start X with /usr/bin/X & and than start vlc with export DISPLAY=:0 && /usr/bin/vlc --fulscreen file.avi and I got video in fullscreen with all ...