F10 VS vlc

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/3/25 Dennis Kaptain <dkaptain at yahoo.com.mx>:
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>> Asunto: F10 VS vlc
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>>
>> Hi!
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>> I just noticed last night that vlc no longer displays its GUI. It still
>> plays audio (haven't tried video yet), but I get no control panel from
>> it anymore. I have to kill it (kill -9) to stop it, and there are no
>> controls.
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>> As recently as this past weekend it was working fine.
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>> Did perhaps an update install a broken one? Any other ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
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> Fred,
> Please do me a favor. Install keepassx and see if it starts. I have vlc and have the same problem. I'm wondering if my keepassx problem is the same problem that vlc is having ie. no GUI displays.
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> I found the sourceforge site where I need to file a bug report but I'm thinking this really isn't a keepassx (or vlc) bug at all but something else so I hesitate.
>

It may be a libX11 bug - a similar bug (no GUI) has been reported for
emacs, and only started occuring in the past day or so following a
libX11 update.