I have two identical monitors, and when playing a full screen video on one of them using the default player or VLC and then working on the other monitor - the top bar and the launcher appear above the video. How can I avoid that?

btw. I'm using ubuntu 11.10

=== This is the case in Ubuntu 12.04 as well. I noticed it when connected to a TV via HDMI.

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If you use Totem (the default video player) or possibly others you can set the video window to be "Always on top". Right click on the title bar and select it:

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I have not actually tried this in Unity, however as noted in my comment, this is a compiz thing, and I am using compiz with gnome-panel which does exactly the same thing.

Also note this might not work in all players if they open a new window when going fullscreen. I think VLC does that so may not work. I'm not sure about mplayer.

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Did you try using xrandr command? Type xrandron the terminal:

subo@ubuntu:~$ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 LVDS1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1024x600 60.0 + 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 VGA1 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 300mm x 230mm 1024x768 85.0*+ 75.1 1280x1024 60.0 800x600 85.1 75.0 640x480 85.0 75.0 60.0 720x400 70.1

If you want to both monitors active use

xrandr --auto

Or if you want to active specific monitor try

xrandr --output MONITER_NAME --auto

and if you want to off the other monitor try

xrandr --output MONITOR_NAME --off

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