[MPlayer-users] Picture stays on screen after switching to to another virtual desktop

[Grigori Goronzy]

Robert Kasunic wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
> DOCS/bugreports.html] Hello,
> 
> I'm using mplayer and am very satisfied with its performance, but I do
> have a small and very annoying problem.
> 
> When viewing a movie on my monitor I sometimes switch to another
> virtual desktop (workspace) to do some work. The problem is that the
> picture of the movie stays on top of the screen on the other
> workspace. It's actually not possible to do anything while the movie
> is playing. I tried it with another windowmanager to no avail.
> 
> I suspect that the problem has something to do with the graphics card
> and the driver respectively. I am using an ATI Radeon VE Graphics
> Card.
> 
> Has anybody observed the same behaviour? If anybody uses the same
> combination of windowmanager (window maker) and graphics card and
> doesn't have this problem: could you please send me your XFree
> configuration file via PM.
> 

Which videout(-vo) do you use? If you use xv or x11, or something like
that, you could start mplayer in non-fullscreen and then set it to
fullscreen with pressing "f". press again "f" to make it a
non-fullscreen-window.

hope that helps..

greg