SOLVED : VLC 2.0.1 with pclinuxos LXDE

[Agent Smith]

Weird, my svlc is the same version of the regular vlc, 2.0.1
And it was updated when vlc was updated to 2.0.1
Took a screencap from Synaptic:


And I don't use it often. But, now that you mentioned it, I tried to run it, and it gave me a seg fault.

Weird...

Well, well,

Greetings,

[djohnston]

Agent Smith,

You're right. I looked in testing section earlier and could have sworn it wasn't there. Just looked again, and there is an svlc version 2.0.1 in testing. So, what you originally recommended is an option for raed. If it's working, that is. I installed the 2.0.1 version. Noticed that desktop-file-utils was listed as a dependency. There was an update available for desktop-file-utils, but it was not marked to be included with the svlc package. I installed the svlc package, then upgraded the desktop-file-utils package. Tried starting svlc from a terminal:

svlc -vv

Got a long string of debugging info, so I'll start a thread in testing section of forum.

EDIT: Testing section post is here.

[raed]

How can i change this ugly style for VLC, is it because gtk or theme or what, is there any way to fix it ?

Um, put a dress on it?    No, seriously, what you are asking is how to "skin" it, or change the window dressing and, most likely, the buttons. If you know how to create themes, install the vlc-devel-2.0.1-1pclos2012 package, in addition to the vlc-2.0.1-1pclos2012 package you already installed. Then, read the /usr/share/doc/vlc-devel/skins/skins-howto.txt documentation file. There are some other tools and examples provided in the devel package.

The older vlc version also has a corresponding svlc (skinned vlc) package in the repositories. But, there isn't one for the newer twoflower version. You can select a set of buttons from within VLC by going to Tools > Customize Interface and selecting one of the profiles. I believe the Modern Style is the default. However, none of the buttons look much better than any others. As far as GTK contributing to the "ugliness", that's not the case. VLC relies on QT widgets.

rpm -q --requires vlc-2.0.1-1pclos2012 | grep gtk
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 

rpm -q --requires vlc-2.0.1-1pclos2012 | grep qt
libqtcore4 
libqtgui4 
libqtnetwork4 
libqtsvg4 
libqtxml4 
qt4-common 

put a dress on it   .. now it's OK , I change window style - interface to "GTK +"
thanx alot again djohnston  

[raed]

You can install svlc, which is a skinned version of vlc.
And go to tools, preferences, interface configuration, there's one option: impose window style , and choose from many styles: GTK, windows, motif, clearlooks.

Ok

Regards

thanx alot, it's ok now

[Agent Smith]

Agent Smith,

You're right. I looked in testing section earlier and could have sworn it wasn't there. Just looked again, and there is an svlc version 2.0.1 in testing. So, what you originally recommended is an option for raed. If it's working, that is. I installed the 2.0.1 version. Noticed that desktop-file-utils was listed as a dependency. There was an update available for desktop-file-utils, but it was not marked to be included with the svlc package. I installed the svlc package, then upgraded the desktop-file-utils package. Tried starting svlc from a terminal:

svlc -vv

Got a long string of debugging info, so I'll start a thread in testing section of forum.

Did the same here. Seems like there are missing graphics components(bitmap pictures, maybe)

Best regards,