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I have an issue where the whole desktop crashes when exiting fullscreen video in chrome/chromium. In particular it crashes when using Plex or Youtube for example.

The only way to solve it is too go to a tty and do a pkill -u username.

This happens in both chrome and chromium, but not in firefox. It doesnt seem to happen if i run Macro instead of Compiz as a window manager.

It's extremely similar to this old question: Making youtube fullscreen will freeze Unity (the whole desktop)

Except i'm running mate and not unity.

Anyone else have this / have a solution for this?

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  • Unset hardware acceleration in the configuration of chrome / chromium
    – bitseater
    Mar 11, 2016 at 22:22

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Yes I've got this problem too, I can untick hardware acceleration however then Chrome become pretty unusable...there might be a setting in the flags I've turned on which is making this happen?

I'm running Unity though.

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  • This worked for me! Actually i activated it shortly after asking the question but wanted some time to really test it before i flagged as solved! Thanks man.
    – SkitOxe
    Mar 13, 2016 at 9:24
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I'd also got this problem and it bothered me for a while. Then I found that clearing the compiz cache at ~/.cache/compizconfig-1/ and ~/.compiz solved the problem temporarily. Finally, disabling Unredirect Fullscreen Windows option in Composite plugin of CCSM (CompizConfig Settings Manager) solved it. CCSM isn't installed by default in Ubuntu. To install it type the following command in terminal.

sudo apt install compizconfig-settings-manager

Hope it solves for you too.

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