Video played via web browser in fullscreen in landscape prevents accessing top phone menu (that shows cellular, wifi, bluetooth, power, orientation and notifications)

Describe your issue

What's the expected behaviour?

Playing a web video in landscape in fullscreen should allow the user to access the phone's top menu, and it should also allow the user to switch back to viewing the video non-fullscreen.

What's the current behaviour?

Playing a web video in landscape in fullscreen prevents the user from being able to access the phone's top menu. There is also no way to switch the video back to viewing in non-fullscreen mode.

How to reproduce your issue?

Navigate to YouTube on Firefox. Play any video and click on the fullscreen control on the video. Hit the top of the phone to access the phone's top menu. Click on the orientation icon to toggle from portrait to landscape. Tap the screen and there are no controls to get out of fullscreen mode. Tap the top of the long edge of the phone screen to try and get the top menu, and nothing happens.

What device are you using?

Pinephone PostmarketOS Community Edition 3GB/32GBeMMc

On what postmarketOS version did you encounter the issue?

• edge (master branch)
• stable (v20.05 branch)

On what environment did you encounter the issue?

Phone environments

• Phosh
• Plasma Mobile
• Sxmo

Other

• No environment
• GNOME
• KDE Plasma
• Kodi
• MATE
• Shelli
• Sway
• Weston
• Xfce4
• fbkeyboard
• i3wm

How did you get postmarketOS image?

• from https://images.postmarketos.org
• I built it using pmbootstrap
• It was preinstalled on my device

What's the build date of the image? (in dd-mm-yyyy format)

Additional information

I have not tried playing videos with a video player from a local file to see whether this behaviour exists for all videos.

Tapping the bottom should reveal the up arrow, keyboard icon at bottom-right, and the top bar.

By ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ on 2020-09-07T23:30:13

That worked as you described. But when you hit that up arrow, it reveals the entire keyboard alongwith the top bar, and the video shrinks even more. Is that the expected experience ?

By Arvind Parthasarathy on 2020-09-08T02:55:55

Hmm, I need to tap to show the keyboard, but that is certainly within the realm of possible behavior (I've had quite a few times where the keyboard pops up when it would be better if it didn't, and it doesn't suprise me that you end up having the keyboard pop up...).

By ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ on 2020-09-08T22:38:15

added type::bug + 1 deleted label

added status::notourbug label

removed 1 deleted label

Closing issue due to inactivity.

By Robert Eckelmann on 2024-08-14T14:30:25

closed