After upgrading to KDE 3.3 I noticed that frequently when running MPlayer in fullscreen mode that the bottom of the frame is cut off from about twice the height of the kicker panel to the bottom of the screen--it's not blank, it just isn't there (you can see the kicker panel and a portion of the desktop). I did notice that toggling fullscreen mode (pressing f twice) seems to fix the problem. Also, I have already tried re-merging MPlayer, and every variance of the -fstype flag, nothing fixes the problem completely. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run MPlayer in fullscreen mode 2. 3. Actual Results: Occasionally, does not open fullscreen correctly. Expected Results: Open fullscreen consistantly. wolverine root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.1-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi cdr crypt dvd dvdr encode esd gif gpm imlib java jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
I saw similar problems on my two systems. It seems to have been dealt with in the latest stable mplayer (1.0_pre4).
Yeah, the new version seems to fix the problem.
Closing based on comments above...