{"id":2692,"date":"2013-12-28T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2013-12-28T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T13:53:41","slug":"totem-open-movies-fullscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/totem-open-movies-fullscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Movies in Fullscreen in Ubuntu with Default Totem Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TOTEM_player_logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TOTEM_player_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Totem full-screen mode\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TOTEM_player_logo.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TOTEM_player_logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing videos with Ubuntu&#8217;s default Totem player? Well you may want to open movies directly in full-screen mode. <\/p>\n<p>Totem doesn&#8217;t provide an option to open in full-screen, but it&#8217;s not hard to tweak this setting since Ubuntu Unity uses <i>.desktop<\/i> files to manage application launchers. All you need to do is change a parameter in totem.desktop file.<\/p>\n<p><b>To get started<\/b>, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste below command and hit enter:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo gedit \/usr\/share\/applications\/totem.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>Type in your user password when prompt (Terminal won&#8217;t display your password, just type in mind and hit enter to get pass).<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see the <i>totem.desktop<\/i> opened with Gedit editor. What you need to do is add <code>--fullscreen<\/code> parameter to Exec value:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/totem-full-screen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/totem-full-screen.jpg\" alt=\"Totem open in full-screen\" width=\"560\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/totem-full-screen.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/totem-full-screen-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Save the file and now your movies will be opened directly in fullscreen mode with Totem player.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing videos with Ubuntu&#8217;s default Totem player? Well you may want to open movies directly in full-screen mode. Totem doesn&#8217;t provide an option to open in full-screen, but it&#8217;s not hard to tweak this setting since Ubuntu Unity uses .desktop files to manage application launchers. All you need to do is change a parameter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[941],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-totem-open-in-fullscreen"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}