Re: Skin browser does not work in vlc

On 17/05/10 00:51, Ben wrote:
> 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
>>
> 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
>
It certainly does.  Thanks Ben, you guessed correctly, the skin engine 
was not installed.  Everything working fine now.  The vlc --motion tip 
has come in handy already.

Len



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