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Missing feature: alt + f4 closing the application, too, while in fullscreen mode

Well, not really, you can escape.

Strange somehow. Actually it did one or two times. But I cannot reproduce it - again the fullscreen window does not close...

Strange, too: If I doubleclick to leave fullscreen mode (or press 'ESC'), the main window is not active any more - if I rightclick and select "leave fullscreen", it stays active. Would guess, that there are two different event handlers implemented, not doing exactly the same...

Another guess is the FSM being implemented with a separate window (a 'Frame' in java awt or c#), covering the complete desktop. This could explain the main window getting inactive. Might there be a problem with my operating system? I'm still using Windows 2000...

Ok, got it:

After getting in fullscreen mode, ALT + F4 works as expected if I before:

- scroll the video using the position bar
- change sound with mouse
- use the pause/continue button

Still not working most of the time - however discoverd that CTRL + Q is working nicely...

So this is fine for me, too, then.

(Disadvantage: have to get used to it - advantage: have to splay my fingers less... hehehe).

Just for interest - anybody else getting this behaviour? In case of yes - which OS do you use?

yes I have the same problem and I would love to see it fixed
using winxp SP3

I have seem a similar issue. Sometimes, when going fullscreen the focus do not go to the fullscreen window. So if i want to pause the video using a hotkey (deafult is the spacebar), VLC ignores it. For it to work, I have to do a single click on the fullscreen window for it to gain focus.
Doubleclicking to go out of fullscreen mode sometimes also fails to pass the focus back to the main vlc window.
From time to time i get similar not-gainning-focus-when-it-should happenings on several other apps, so I thought it would be a win XP problem and not a vlc one.

Using win XP SP3.

Fill a bug.

I just use ESC key (escape) to leave fullscreen and then close the application manually but I am using the latest 1.0 build as of now [1.0.0-rc2-20090602-0003-win32] and have also noticed this not working.

So it up to either of you guys to fill this as a bug as soon.

Open %appdata%\vlc\vlcrc with notepad, add this line:

key-quit=Alt-F4

This really should be default, this has annoyed me forever.