The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    OK I give up. Have a look fellas. (vlc)

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by WaR, May 7, 2009.

  1. WaR

    WaR Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    2,391
    Messages:
    2,128
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Here is the problem. I was just installing VLC. Went fine. Then I tried installing all skins. Put them in the correct folder. Good. Now, if I right click on the top of the player I get a menu and in it I can pick, among other things, preferences and skins. Skins work. Preferences doesn't open the preferences window. Anger.

    [​IMG]

    Not only that, but now the notification that VLC is running (the orange cone) doesn't appear, as you can see. In addition, the VLC window botton does not appear on the panel.

    [​IMG]

    However, if I open something else like, terminal, firefox, etc., then it appears.

    Finally, in the Workspace selector on the panel, everytime I open VLC a small square appears on the top-left corner which I can't get to.

    Ideas?
     
    WaR, May 7, 2009
    #1
  2. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

    Reputations:
    3,300
    Messages:
    7,115
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    206
    How did you install VLC? What distro are you using? Why aren't you just using mplayer? ;)
     
    Pitabred, May 7, 2009
    #2
  3. WaR

    WaR Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    2,391
    Messages:
    2,128
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I just did apt-get vlc. The regular way. I'm on 9.04. Anyway, I tried purge and deleting the vlc from usr/share/ and reinstalled. Same problem.

    I wanted to give it a shot but somehow I always end up with problems with vlc. Whatever, I'm gonna purge it to hell.


    Edit: SOB is gone.
     
    WaR, May 7, 2009
    #3