Unable to fullscreen video on second monitor

Question

I can't run any fullscreen video on my second monitor. I tried with youtube on google chrome, netflix on firefox and vlc.

Any ideas on why?

Answer 1

The same happen to me since Juno, with Loki I could without issue. Now is not possible to upscale any video content

The only way to bypass it is to maximize it/go fullscreen on the main display and then send it to the desired one (WINKEY+SHIFT+RIGHT_ARROW)

I couldn't figure out where to watch in the logs to check what happen

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I use chrome to watch netflix and youtube in kiosk mode

just save the app shortcut then edit it and add --kiosk and --window-position=X,0

where X stand for the x coordinate where the second display starts

https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

check your displays with:

$ xrandr --query

that will make chrome go fullscreen and load on the second display for youtube -> youtube.com/tv (works awesome)