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    • edward5
      edward5 last edited by

      to exit fullscreen, right click on the mouse button to get the options screen, it's that easy.

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      • cyberwrath265
        cyberwrath265 last edited by

        what I did typed alt+p to get to settings them went to shortcuts setting and changed toggle fullscreen to something that wasn't used unlike f11 (which changes brightness for me) and once I changed the shortcut I put the new full screen command in and I was out of full screen

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        • masoumi
          masoumi @leocg last edited by

          @leocg Same problem here. Appearantly , it's a known problem with alot of people. I seriously do not understand why Opera does not have a "exit fullscreen" button when hovering to the top, just like Chrome. Why make life harder when it can be easy?

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          • alobpreis
            alobpreis @davidjohn last edited by

            @davidjohn said in Stuck in full screen:

            faced the same issue while reading the novel on a random site readlightnovel.info

            That site looks for sale now, it has ads as "related searches" only.

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            • QuickVowel
              QuickVowel @edward5 last edited by

              @edward5 Thank you sooooo much!!! ur a lifesaver

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              • oddssatisfy
                oddssatisfy last edited by

                I am also facing the same issue.

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                • downscale
                  downscale last edited by

                  Re: Stuck in full screen

                  I was enjoying Opera GX as a browser, till I "fullscreened" a certain Gx.gaming site game. Now it's stuck in full screen. Can't F11/F12 to reduce the size back to normal, can't close the software with alt-F4, And when I finally gave up and hit Cntrl+Shift+Esc, and ended task, i noticed that there were (23) Opera GX instances running, while I was just playing a game. What the hell? So ...yeah I dunno about Opera GX, seems a little Kooky to say the least.

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by This post is deleted!
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                    • gxsbgcrwd
                      gxsbgcrwd @downscale last edited by

                      @downscale While stuck in full screen is a bug, it's quite normal for browsers to use a lot of processes

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                      • Argosmusic
                        Argosmusic @friendshipseeker last edited by

                        @friendshipseeker Oh my god thank you so much. Ive been trying to get rid of the full screen for so long and i almost gave up and switched completely to a new search engine, you're a life saver thank you.

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                        • ChickenBirb
                          ChickenBirb @friendshipseeker last edited by

                          @friendshipseeker Im in the gx corner and with this onn. keyboard, is impossible.

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                          • ChickenBirb
                            ChickenBirb @friendshipseeker last edited by

                            @friendshipseeker in my gx browser, I can't do anything because i'm in the GX Corner. have anything?

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                            • yowhatsapp
                              yowhatsapp last edited by

                              Thank you for providing the solution! But I have forced my computer to reboot after shutting it down. I will try it next time if I will come across it again, thanks again!

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                              • notjes
                                notjes last edited by

                                Once you are stuck in full screen and Esc and F11 do not work, you can press SHIFT + F10 and select exit full screen.

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                                • notcricket
                                  notcricket last edited by

                                  if your on mac then you can force quit opera then it should go back to normal

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                                  • rhythm-speedy236
                                    rhythm-speedy236 last edited by

                                    Open a new tab, right click, go to settings, go to shortcuts, change the fullscreen shortcut to something else, and use that.

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                                    • shreyjain360
                                      shreyjain360 last edited by

                                      Command + Shift + F worked for me.

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                                      • cooperdozier
                                        cooperdozier last edited by

                                        Re: Stuck in full screen

                                        Got stuck in full screen on a windows laptop, same problem others had been describing and offered solutions failed or were unavailable to me. Eventually I figured it out. On this (Lenovo X1) laptop the F keys all have little icons for other stuff they do on them which does not actually trigger the F/Fn key functions. So what you do to trigger the F11 exit full screen function is to hold the 'Fn' key and press F11. Worked first time. Just tested to enter and exit full screen again, very easy. So it was an annoying problem and it should be in the context menu. Theres problem some way I don't know to make the menus appear. But once found, it was an easy way out. Not sure how it would work on my Mac Mini with a PC keyboard and I don't have an Apple laptop to check. But Fn+F11 does the trick no problem. Hope you found this answer first instead of all the others that don't seem to do it!

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                                        • sgunhouse
                                          sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @cooperdozier last edited by

                                          @cooperdozier That is just pressing F11, technically. On most laptops and many multimedia keyboards, the mulrimedia functions are primary and the actual F-keys require you press and hold an Fn key to access the F-key functions. So Fn+F5 is F5 (Reload), Fn+F1 is Help, and yes Fn+F11 is Toggle Fullscreen.

                                          Or - at least on my keyboard, you can press Shift+Fn to engage Fn Lock, which makes the F-keys primary and makes you use Fn to access the multimedia keys.

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