Ubuntu – Adobe Flash plugin: no full screen

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in my Lubuntu 13.04 (with Gnome Shell 3.8), Flash videos won't go to full screen in certain Flash players (i.e. on certain sites).
– Actually in most players, that means it doesn't work at all. Upon left-click on the fullscreen-button, I see a flicker as if it did got to full-screen, but then it stays standard size, kinda like a pop-up ad being killed by ad-block.
– Some players have a "toggle fullscreen" option available on right-click menu, this is the only option that works for me now. In this case, I have to press and hold the right mouse button and release it over the "fullscreen" menu entry. The menu disappears when releasing the mouse button.
– Only exception I found so far: Youtube, which works normally with left click on the fullscreen-button.
My current Flash-plugin version is 11.2.202.285ubuntu0.13.04.1.
I wonder if Gnome Shell might be messing with Flash?
Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
Edit: this problem is present in Firefox, Opera and Chromium browsers.
The graphics card I'm using (as reported in Gnome settings > details) is GeForce 8100/nForce720a/integrated/SSE2

Best Answer

I found the following solution which worked perfectly for me:

Workaround fo this:

  1. Install devilspie (via Terminal:)

    sudo apt-get install devilspie

  2. Write config for firefox (via Terminal:)

    mkdir ~/.devilspie
nano ~/.devilspie/flash-fullscreen-firefox.ds

(if
(is (application_name) "plugin-container")
(begin
(focus)
)
)

  3. Make devilspie autostart

Done.

Solution from: https://plus.google.com/100368718538258540940/posts/eJWwPj8B4dX (last post)

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