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Is it possible to disable the VLC feature where double-clicking the mouse on a playing video toggles between windowed and fullscreen modes? I need to prevent fullscreen mode altogether, an indirect way to do so would work as well (that is, I don't care about the mouse double-click feature in specific - any method to prevent fullscreen mode will suffice). We are sending "f off" to the player every 5 seconds, but for some reason the player started ignoring that after a few minutes. The only way to get out of fullscreen mode is to double-click on the video again (or press ESC, but there's no keyboard involved). I suppose I could delve into the source since we had to compile ourselves anyway...

Is it possible to disable the VLC feature where double-clicking the mouse on a playing video toggles between windowed and fullscreen modes?

Now's you're chance, hurry before they fix it! Nightly build - April 24th

I take it fullscreen on double-click is broken in that build. But I need the source to compile on Linux...I'll see if I can't find it...

Of course this needs to run in a production environment as part of our product, so I wouldn't feel too hot about running a build that hasn't been marked as stable...

Is it possible to disable the VLC feature where double-clicking the mouse on a playing video toggles between windowed and fullscreen modes?

Now's you're chance, hurry before they fix it! Nightly build - April 24th

It is a BUG

Like I said - don't feel too good about the idea of "fixing" my problem by taking advantage of buggy code! But seriously, is there a clean and correct way to disable the double-click functionality?

not yet. But it could be in the future.

I hate to necro an old topic but I have been prowling the forums looking for the answer to this topic and have failed to find it.

I would actually like to do the opposite and disable the double click so I can prevent the user from double clicking into windowed mode thus keeping them in full screen. Any help would be highly appreciated.

You should build your own vlc for that.

You should build your own vlc for that.

I may have better luck building a house with a paper clip and some bubble gum. A programmer I am not, nor even close to one, I prefer to leave the smart guys with the code, I may turn VLC into a self replicating virus that is responsible for the destruction of man.

I had hoped somebody out there may have tackeled this problem and could point me in the right direction.

I finally figured it out.

under advanced preferences, there is a mouse events checkbox