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Hello,

I'm trying to start vlc --fulscreen xxx.avi on kde. The fullscreen works but the wm ( kwin ) keep a border to the window. How can I avoid this ? I know how to manually get rid of this border ( right click on the title and choose no border ). For my work, I must avoid this manipulation.

I'm using KDE, and I can't reproduce your problem at all, or then I don't understand your problem.

I'm having exactly the same problem. It seemed to start when I tried to use the Skin 2 skin. If I go to the window options in KDE (ALT-F3) and select Fullscreen, the borders disappear, but as soon as the next video begins playing the borders are back. Very annoying. The window has an "X" logo in the upper left corner. I'm using Kubuntu 5.10 AMD64, if that's any help.

A ticket has been added to the bug tracking system for this issue. I can't fix it myself.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/670

It has been reported that this was a KDE bug on amd64. Should this be true, you would have to complain to KDE, we cannot handle it here.

I posted a KDE bug report and the devs over at KDE at saying it's an error with VLC. Check the bug report for details.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139947

They are probably right. This should be fixed anyway.

Does anyone know what version of vlc the fix will be included in? I know it's in the svn trac, but I'm asking about a release...0.9.0?

0.8.6b or whatever its name.

I asked because I'm using Gentoo and vlc-0.8.6_p18636 (which entered portage yesterday) would still not fullscreen correctly.

Which is a Gentoo-made tarball. That does not help us at all.

I think it's a release of 0.8.6a that includes a bug fix for a DOS exploit.

Here is what it says on packages.gentoo.org bug #161828
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161828

I hope this is more helpful.

The fix (should it work) is in current 0.8.6-bugfix (NOT in 0.8.6a) and 0.9.0 that's all. I don't even know if it works.

That patch didn't fix the problem at all.

None of the few left developers have an amd64. Provide a working patch and stop whining.

I can confirm that the fix isn't working either. I'm on 0.86-bugfix and I have no difference. I wish I could jump right in a fix it, but I'm not familiar with VLC or X at the code level.

That is true, this didn't do anything.

But I realized today, that 0.9.0-svn does give me the correct fullscreen,
if I put --vout sdl as a parameter.
The version, that I have installed 0.8.6-bugfix from Gentoo's portage tree
however doesn't give me the correct fullscreen when I se this parameter.

Maybe others can confirm this?

SDL output does not use X11 code, which is supposedly where the bug lies. X11 code is shared by the x11, xvideo, xvmc and glx outputs.

Yes, I did realize that, because I tried all drivers, to be sure.
But I was wondering, why the sdl output works with the svn version
and why it doesn't with 0.8.6.

Another attempt to patch this today. Lets see if that works (ETA for 0.8.6-bugfix source snapshot is 5 minutes from now).

It works, great.

Thank you very much!

Edit:
The only thing is, that I have to click on the video to bring it in front of the
Taskbar, seems like the fullscreen windows doesn't get activated, but that
is another, minor problem.

Yep I know have fullscreen in KDE . I have been waiting almost a year for this bug to be fixed (I ran into it last June when I switched from x86 Gentoo to amd64).

Thank you very much!

Well, if you had given me an amd64 for fun, or if the KDE developpers had been more explicit in their diagnostic (only a note, not a reproach), it would have been faster to fix.