Re: Skin browser does not work in vlc

On 05/16/2010 05:59 PM, Len Lawrence wrote:
> On 16/05/10 02:20, Len Lawrence wrote:
>> Has anybody tried to use skins in vlc?
>>
>> I have gone through all the motions but cannot get the skin browser 
>> in the Tools/Preferences section to do anything.  Not possible to get 
>> vlc to accept a named skin either.  The 32 Mb package was unpacked 
>> into ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2 and the vlcrc file in ~/.config/vlc 
>> contains the lines:
>>
>> # string (Interface module)
>> intf=skins2
> Information from the Videolan forums indicates that we are on a hiding 
> to nothing with vlc skins under Linux; better to wait for vlc 1.1 
> (available soon).  Compiling that from source is likely to be 
> problematic though.  I tried with 1.0.6 and ran in to so many 
> problems, dependencies and the like, that I had to give up.  The 
> configuration procedure failed to find the fribidi package even though 
> the libraries and /usr/bin/fribidi were definitely there.  Let us hope 
> that some kind person comes up with an RPM for 2010.* when vlc 1.1 is 
> released.  The current version comes from PLF.
>
>
If you haven't tried to urpmi vlc-more-skins  which will want to install 
svlc also, you might give that a try and see if it automagically fixes 
things for you.
warning;  some skins are really terrible and don't have any menu buttons 
at all.  If you get stuck with one of them, you can use  vlc --motion  
and get to a workable skin so you can change them.

Hope that helps.
benja22
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