G-key doesn't bring xine's control panel to the foreground in full screen mode

Hi Johannes,
do you have desktop-effects enabled? Which release are you using?

Yes, desktop-effects are enabled. I use gutsy beta and the xine version from the repositories.

It also does not work with disabled desktop effects...

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Yes, this is still an issue for me with Hardy 64 bit.

OK, thank you for reporting this, I have confirmed this bug (will mark it as Triaged since a developer should be able to start working on it).

connor@lappy686-mk2:~$ apt-cache policy xine-ui
xine-ui:
  Installed: 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2
  Candidate: 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.99.5+cvs20070914-2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.media.mit.edu hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

connor@lappy686-mk2:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy

connor@lappy686-mk2:~$ uname -a
Linux lappy686-mk2 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I too have experienced this bug. It occurs with the version of Xine included in Ubuntu 8.10 repository.

I would also like to add some detail about the behavior of this bug.

I have noticed that when "F" is pressed to switch to full screen, the GUI automatically disappears (as if G had also been pressed). It is a frustrating behavior.

I wondered if it was intentional behavior. If so, can we have a check box in the configurator to switch between this behavior and the earlier behavior of full screen mode where the GUI remained if it was on and pressing the "G" key summons the GUI.

FWIW I'd like to add, I am still using Ubuntu 7.04 because of this annoying bug (and some others), was hoping to see it fixed in 8.10 as many of the other bugs in 8.04 seem to have been fixed.

The following report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=262952

Suggests that this is caused by the the panel not changing window layer. This is still an issue for me in Intrepid using GNOME.

The latest version in cvs of xine-ui seems to have fixed this issue for me with gnome.

Though it has a 'new' little bug where key presses don't work until you clicked on the full-screen-window-layer.

Sorry spoke to soon, it only shows the control panel in full screen other panels like the playlist or brightness panel do not appear.

This bug still exists in Karmic Koala :-(

Same here! Still in Karmic, still annoying.

There is a setting somewhere in xine, something about keeping it in the foreground (always_layer_above in the gui section). Unchecking that works around the issue but obviously stops stupid popups from being hidden.
In a somewhat related matter, having always_layer_above enabled will keep xine above the popups but still give them keyboard focus, resulting in *really* akward behaviour. I personally consider the always_layer_above option too buggy to use because of this.