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That keybindings go a little haywire when you use a skin on VLC? The only skin that still allows use of all of VLC's default keybindings is the default VLC skin.

For instance with the three skins I tried, the "f" keybinding, which switches the player between full screen and windowed mode, only works to place the player back into full screen mode from windowed mode with the default player skin. This happens on any of my five PC's. I haven't tried it on any of my Macs yet.

Anyone else notice this?

I absolutely love VLC but I would like to dress it up a little using skins but I am stuck using the plain interface because I care more about using the keybindings than I do how it looks.

afaik the keybindings only work when the video itself has the focus, not when the interface (being the skin, or wxwidgets, or qt4, or whatever) has the focus

No, in the skins interface, the hotkeys which doesn't have a special meaning for the skin engine (i.e. everything except ctrl+S and ctrl+t, iirc) are forwarded to VLC core.
The problem might indeed be related witht he Video control, so check if it is better with skins which don't embed the video window.