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I've managed to get YouTube Flash videos fullscreen by using two tips, but whenever I move the mouse pointer to a different screen (thereby changing the application focus) the fullscreen mode is canceled. Is there some way to ensure that only application focus changes on the same screen cancels the fullscreen mode?

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No as this is a security feature of flash - see superuser.com/questions/16055/… for a possible workaround – Ulrich Dangel Mar 16 at 14:17

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I don't have a solution to the flash problem, but here's a workaround. The following snippet maps to mod-v and starts the highlighted URL (the X PRIMARY selection) in VLC.

globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
  awful.key({ modkey }, "v",
    function ()
      awful.util.spawn_with_shell('vlc $(xclip -o)')
    end),
)

This method can be combined with the cclive tool, which downloads videos from popular sites (also works by highlighting the URL0 and plays them back in VLC or a player of choice.

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How is this a workaround? – g33kz0r Mar 26 at 4:32
@g33kz0r It's a workaround since it solves half of the problem: After focusing a different application on the other screen the video is still playing fullscreen. – l0b0 Mar 27 at 15:20
@l0b0 That's how VLC works and I like it that way. You press f to enter fullscreen and f again to exit fullscreen. Why should it leave fullscreen just because I focus another application? It could be an option, though. – Marco Mar 27 at 15:33
But this only applies to direct links to videos, right? I thought this question was about videos embedded in browsers a la YouTube? – g33kz0r Mar 27 at 16:21
@g33kz0r Did you try to open VLC, press ctrl-n and paste a YouTube URL? That's exactly what this snippet does. (The old version before the edit even skipped the copy-paste step and opened the current video in VLC immediately.) – Marco Mar 27 at 16:40
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