Screen becomes white after exiting Full screen flash videos

This happens a lot when I spend my day watching online videos (especially long ones).

When I exit Full scren from flash video, the whole screen becomes white and I can't do anything to fix it.

I try to go CTRL+ALT+F12 and than CTRL+ALT+F7 but it stays white when I return to Graphical mode.

I resolve it by killing ligtdm and starting it again from tty.

I have Ubuntu 13.04, latest chrome and latest updates. I have Intel i3 Processor with integrated GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2.

Solution 1:

This indicates an issue with your web browser Flash plug-in. You must have the latest Flash Player installed to use full-screen mode and for hardware-scaled full-screen mode.

My best guess is that the things you are trying to view require the latest versions of java, and flash player. Also you can try HTML5, and see if the problem exists, or it disappears. You could also ty other browsers, to see if the problem still exists.

Try using Firefox, but before playing a video, Type about:config in Firefox address bar, then type plugin.expose_full_path in the filter, then double-click it to make it true. Then type about:plugins in the address bar, find Shockwave Flash, make sure that that path is correct.

Path: /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
Version: Shockwave Flash 11.x rxx 

Solution 2:

I have the same problem. What I do to fix it is: I switch to the command mode (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and type unity restart, then press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return back to the ordinary screen.

Solution 3:

This problem happens with Intel video adapters and Chrome built-in pepperflash. It can be fixed by disabling pepperflash in chrome://plugins

flashplugin-installer package must be installed to use external flash 11.2.

Solution 4:

Fixed for me when I turn off hardware acceleration in Flash:

1. Right click on your flash video
2. Settings
3. Uncheck "enable hardware accelaration"