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After I updated my desktop to 14.04 totem or unity default video player show it's play/pause icon very big on the screen, and there is nothing in preferences that i can change it.

any suggestions ? enter image description here

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  • This is very strange! Have you tried apt-get install --reinstall totem? Or install unity-tweak-tool and try a different icon theme.
    – Jos
    Apr 22, 2014 at 20:24
  • Thank you It hasn't occurred to me to do the reinstall. It solved.
    – Mohammad_Hosseini
    Apr 22, 2014 at 20:32
  • I've added that as an answer below; please feel free to accept this as the right answer.
    – Jos
    Apr 22, 2014 at 20:40
  • Re-installing does NOT fix it - help?
    – user283900
    May 21, 2014 at 15:18
  • It's been filed as a bug here: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/1309605
    – user1278519
    May 23, 2014 at 11:29

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Reset to default
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Something messed up with your icon set for totem. Just reinstall it with:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall totem
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    I tried the same solution but it didn't work. I still get huge icons
    – Eyad Salah
    Apr 25, 2014 at 21:19
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    try auto remove then install it again and see if it's ok!
    – Mohammad_Hosseini
    Apr 26, 2014 at 8:08
  • @ComputerJy Worked for me. Try uninstalling totem with sudo apt-get purge totem; sudo apt-get autoremove, then install again with sudo apt-get install totem.
    – imolit
    Feb 13, 2015 at 12:19
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    it works for me but only for some time and problem still appear again. Is there some better solution?
    – Mariusz
    Apr 11, 2015 at 9:39
  • same problem here
    – m3asmi
    Mar 29, 2016 at 10:41
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Patch code below to totem3.10.1, will fix this annoying problem.

It may cause other display problems as i haven't run a full test

have fun!

--- totem-3.10.1/src/totem-object.c 2013-09-29 20:18:43.000000000 +0800
+++ totem-3.10.1-myversion/src/totem-object.c   2014-10-08 21:59:52.266918845 +0800
@@ -3356,6 +3356,7 @@
            icon_name = totem_get_rtl_icon_name ("media-playback-start");
        else
            icon_name = "media-playback-pause-symbolic";
+       icon_name = NULL;
        totem_fullscreen_show_popups_or_osd (totem->fs, icon_name, FALSE);
        totem_action_play_pause (totem);
        return TRUE;
@@ -3692,6 +3693,7 @@
        retval = FALSE;
    }

+   icon_name = NULL;
    if (icon_name != NULL)
        totem_fullscreen_show_popups_or_osd (totem->fs,
                             icon_name,
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