Linux Flash Player with 2 Monitors: always full-screen on primary monitor

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Published on 2010-02-21T23:54:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 15:23 UTC
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My setup at home uses a laptop, with a larger external monitor in addition to the built-in LCD panel, which is primary. I can see the larger monitor from the rest of the room and use it as my TV, for playing DVDs and various types of web video. However, it isn't ideal for Flash video. For instance, if I watch a video from Hulu or any other Flash-based site, I can expand it to full-screen mode. However, no matter which monitor the browser window is on, the full-screen mode is always on the laptop LCD panel, which is both too small and not visible from most of the room. Does anyone know of a way to force the Flash video to play full-screen on the monitor I select instead of the primary?

My video chipset is NVidia, using kernel 2.6.31 (Ubuntu).

Thanks.

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