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. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
