Chrome will not exit full screen mode

[98cwitr]

Worked fine last night, rebooted this morning and now Google Chrome will not exit from full screen mode. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling (no purge) and that didn't work. Any ideas?

[satanselbow]

Sure it was a general problem and not just a hung script on a particular page? F11 toggles as it should here

[98cwitr]

Yeah I banged on F11 to my heart's content. No joy. Chrome opens in tab view, not sure of any script that would be running there. How would I check for that?


Installed Chromium...works fine!

[98cwitr]

bump

[98cwitr]

Solved. Had to delete the google-chrome folder from ~/.config and did a fresh install. Really wonder what caused that though :/

[snakerdlk]

Happened to me in chromium in arch and ubuntu oneiric with google-chrome.

I've been tinkering around, since removing the whole ~/.config/google-chrome directory removes most of the customizations, so I looked for a better way.

I ended up replacing this section:
(this is a from a new generated ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences)

"browser": {
"window_placement": {
"bottom": 586,
"left": 9,
"maximized": false,
"right": 1013,
"top": 29,
"work_area_bottom": 600,
"work_area_left": 0,
"work_area_right": 1024,
"work_area_top": 23
}
},

No idea why it happens though...

[Francewhoa]

Easier fix
1. Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS navigate to SYSTEM > PREFERENCES > APPEARANCE
2. Click on VISUAL EFFECTS tab
3. Select NONE then EXTRA. It might take a while to activate the EXTRA. A process bar might open. Wait. After that select NONE. This will refresh both the VISUAL EFFECTS and all windows.
4. Try your windows or document again. Now you should see the top toolbar with button. If not press F11. If that doesn't work redo all the above steps again, but this time during the whole process keep your full screen window open in the background or in another screen.

[Dentedmind]

Easier fix
1. Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS navigate to SYSTEM > PREFERENCES > APPEARANCE
2. Click on VISUAL EFFECTS tab
3. Select NONE then EXTRA. It might take a while to activate the EXTRA. A process bar might open. Wait. After that select NONE. This will refresh both the VISUAL EFFECTS and all windows.
4. Try your windows or document again. Now you should see the top toolbar with button. If not press F11. If that doesn't work redo all the above steps again, but this time during the whole process keep your full screen window open in the background or in another screen.

Thank you Onopoc! That was much easier.

[seanmcnealy]

I ended up replacing this section:
(this is a from a new generated ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences)

I've been having the same trouble after my last update and this edit solved it. Thanks snakerdlk.

[aodry]

Make sure there is no chrome running. Get a list of running processes, then kill them by they pid

>ps aux | grep chromium
>kill pid

Now you can remove the preference file: (location could be a bit differ based on your distro)

rm .config/chromium/Default/Preferences

Restart chrome should generate a new Preferences file with everything back to default.

If you want to know what caused it, then you should first make a backup of the Preferences file, then compare it with the newly created one.. In my case there were an extra section, which overruled the windows layout.