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ajcanterbury
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February 25, 2010
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Fullscreen Flash w/ Dual Monitors

  • February 25, 2010
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I and many others are looking for a work-around to keep flash movies in fullscreen mode while using dual monitors in linux, particularly in firefox. The problem is: when a fullscreen flash file is playing on one screen the user is unable to click anywhere on the second monitor without closing the fullscreen on the other.

There's a fairly obscure hack of the windows dll, NPSWF32.dll, which is provided at http://my.opera.com/d.i.z./blog/2009/04/22/watch-fullscreen-flash-while-working-on-another-screen. An equivalent solution for linux would be helpful until the next flash plugin gives an option to disable this.

The only option currently is to run flash files through an outside player, which is not an option for all streams.

Thanks

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    concretequeen
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    November 30, 2010

    Me too! I have spent too many hours wanting this capability, thinking it's just a prefrence I havent found yet.  Nope, I saw a post from 2008 wanting to do the full screen while multitasking.  I have to concluded they dont plan on making full screen a choice.  Silverlight asked me did I want my movie to stay full screen and I said yes and I worked in photoshop while watching a netflix Alice in wonderland.  So I know it can be done.

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    Anonymous
    January 16, 2011

    I just updated to version 10,1,103,20 hoping that Adobe had become aware of this issue and had a solution. But, I sit here disappointed. Please Adobe, find a way to keep the Flash Player Full screen when a user pushes the volume up/dn button on their keyboard or clicks on another window.

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    pwillener
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    January 16, 2011

    JPDMcKenna wrote:

    Please Adobe...

    Please note that this is a user-to-user forum.  While Adobe staff may sometimes look in here, there is no guarantee that Adobe sees anything posted in these forums.

    The only way to get Adobe developers' attention is to file a bug report (with all relevant information) at https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

    After you've done that, post the issue URL here, so that other users can vote on it.

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