You can also open gconf-editor and change /apps/gnome- mplayer/preferences/disable_animation to true and see if that fixes it. The checkbox in 0.9.8 doesn't work due to a coding error that was fixed on Oct 5, 2009.
-- Gnome-mplayer shows only gray square in fullscreen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443223 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gtk+2.0 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
