On Tue, 2020-05-19 at 11:33 +0200, Mayavimmer wrote:
Robin Lee wrote:
> Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one.
>
> Also been launching VLC from a terminal lately and sometimes it
> also
> doesn't terminate cleanly that way. I close the VLC window, it
> disappears from system panel, but in the terminal window the prompt
> is
> not returned. Ctrl-c returns the prompt and VLC doesn't show up
> anymore
> in system monitor.
I also experienced the same and more recent Vlc weirdness.
I fixed it by removing the config file with:
$ mv ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlc--00--maybe-broken
If you don't need the old config, try it.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't change anything for me. I
guess it just some combination of content and slightly buggy codecs
that sometimes causes VLC not to exit cleanly. And the screen saver
can't tell the difference between that a running vlc that you don't
want to blank the screen on.