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Hi,

By default hotkey "f" makes VLC to toggle fullscreen. Unfortunately (for me), a mouse double-click also makes that.
I would like to disable the mouse double-click only. At least when VLC is running in full screen.

Is there a way to make VLC ignore the mouse double-click?

In fact, I cannot fully disable mouse events (i.e., cannot use --no-mouse-events) because I still need the mouse to work.
The plan is to keep VLC running a stream 24/24 in full screen, allowing the touch screen to turn off (power saving) after a certain amount of time. Whenever an user wants to turn on the screen again, he/she only have to touch the screen.
To be clear, I just want to prevent the user to be able to cancel VLC full screen mode by doing a double click.

So, is there a way to make VLC ignore the mouse double-click? This requested behavior is only required in fullscreen but there's no harm if it also works when in non-fullscreen mode.
If not possible to disable it in VLC, any suggestions how to solve this issue?

Thank you!

VLC is open-source, so you can always modify it.

Otherwise no.

Thank you for your response!
Unfortunately modifying VLC source code is not an option for me...
As a plan B, I was thinking of some kind of an app that would capture mouse clicks... know any?
Anyway, the solution should be supported on both Windows and Linux (at least).

Found autohotkey (https://www.autohotkey.com/), a script-based app that captures keyboard and\or mouse clicks (haven't tried it yet though).
Unfortunately, it only runs on Windows.
Does anyone know a similar cross-platform tool? Or, at least, for Linux ?

Capturing input events is intrinsically not portable, so don't get your hopes too high.