My guess would be that totem may be fiddling with the framebuffer directly in that case, whereas when windowed it uses the window manager which is smarter about xrandr. But I'm not 100% sure.
Another case came up for this bug, where if the user's system has two displays of drastically different resolution, they may care to designate the non-primary display as primary (if it's the higher resolution one), so the toolbars, etc. come in right. -- gnome-display-properties: no way to set which is the primary monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206528 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
