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How do I force fullscreen flash playing on a multi-monitor setup using libpepflashplayer.so?

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I have 2 monitors, and I am using google chrome. When I watch a video in full screen on one monitor and then click on the other monitor it minimizes youtube to the embedded playback.

I will not be able to use the other flash player found in chrome://plugins/ So it definitely has to be done through /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so How can I make it stay in full screen mode? I should note that I am using Compiz.

What is the action that tells youtube that is not the active app when you click on somethign outside of it.? I want to find it and break it.

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answered 2 Years ago rialhirt · Accepted Answer

There is a hack at https://github.com/ali1234/fullscreenhack that works for pepper flash also. It works by hooking into the system calls that flash uses to get the monitor/geometry info and property changes.

It's pretty simple to use:

First Download the github and extract it (does not matter where). Open a terminal and navigate to the directory.

Install dependencies: sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev

Build it: make

Run chrome with LD_PRELOAD: env LD_PRELOAD="/path/to/libfshack-ppapi.so" google-chrome %u

Profit!

That being said, I've used the Maximize Flash extension for chromium and making the browser full screen via F11 with great results, however the Maximize Flash extension has ceased working for me.

Finally the code for step 3 should look something like this:
env LD_PRELOAD="/home/jan/Downloads/fullscreenhack-master/libfshack-ppapi.so" google-chrome %u