Re: VLC and screen saver

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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.
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