VLC is without a doubt my favorite video player, in my opinion it's simply the best. It's really cross platform, intuitive, fast and light. Oh, and the keyboard shortcuts are great too.

But there is one oddly head banging feature which drives me crazy in term of usability: fullscreen mode on a multi display setup.

I don't know if Windows users are afflicted by this (I use only Ubuntu), but here's what I have to do just in order to choose the monitor in which I want fullscreen mode:

• click settings
• click Preference (or CTRL+s)
• double click Video
• double click Output modules
• click XVideo
• select Advanced options
• set Screen for fullscreen mode to 0 or one 1
• click save
• return to player
• go to fullscreen mode (double click)

That's freaking insane. The normal and expected behavior for a end user is simply to:

• get the player in the desired monitor
• go to fullscreen mode (double click)

The Screen for fullscreen mode option could simply be changed to Force screen for fullscreen mode. -1 could mean auto and higher than -1, the screen number.

But then again VLC beat most other players, because it's an Open Source project. Unfortunately, I have no C programming skill so I can't implement this improvement myself, but at least I can suggest it.

I really hope this improvement idea will makes its way into a future release and kudos to the dev team for their great work.