Xfce4-panel still shown during VLC fullscreen

Hi,
This is a problem I've been having for a while - whenever I switch to fullscreen display in VLC, my XFCE panel remains visible. mplayer on the other hand works just fine.
Does anyone have an idea how to debug this? I've tried unchecking the hardware acceleration option and switching output driver, but neither seems to help

Found few more workarounds to have this by default.
1. To have VLC always on top of your panels, tested in XFCE.
Open VLC and go to menu "Tools" => "Preferences" (or press CTRL+P) then switch to "Video" tab on the left options panel. Check "Always on top" and click "Save" button.
2. Turn off subs by default on MKV files.
Open VLC and go to menu "Tools" => "Preferences" (or press CTRL+P) then under "Show settings" select "All" option. Then select "Video" =>"Subtitles/OSD"and check "On Screen Display" option. This will disable mkv subs by default. If you want to manually turn them on durring video playback simply "Right-Click" mouse button on VLC video and look for "Subtitles" menu.

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# $Id: PKGBUILD 36266 2009-04-20 20:58:18Z andyrtr $
# Maintainer: tobias <tobias funnychar archlinux.org>
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