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I've recently installed the latest version of Chrome for Linux on my Ubuntu 9.10 installation. The only problem is is that it stays in Full Screen mode no matter what I do. I pressed F11 but it does not want to return to normal mode. I even completely uninstalled it using synaptic package manager en re-downloaded it and still nothing. Any suggestions will be welcome.

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You might try to remove your chrome config dir:

rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome

Deleting chrome via synaptic would not have deleted it.

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load the file "~/.config/google-chrome/LocalState" into a text editor and change the values under "window_placement" so that the window will be smaller than your screen size, e.g I chose "bottom":500, "left":10, "right":1000, top:"50".

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I had a similar problem on a dev build. Try scrolling to the top of the page and then putting your mouse pointer at the top of the screen and THEN hit F11. It may work it may not.

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@Joel, thx for the answer, tried that, did not do the trick, Bozhidar's solution worked for me – Roland Apr 19 '10 at 18:17
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No, just press alt + ESC and all will be the normal again

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