I disabled Xv for cheese by setting it to use the "ximagesink" element rather than "gconfvideosink". Now, cheese will always use X11 regardless of the general gstreamer setting in gconf (/system/gstreamer/0.10/default/videosink).
** Changed in: dennis Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- Cheese video disappears when minimized or maximized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261473 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs