VLC gone crazy in 11.1!

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I don’t know what has happened to vlc! >:(
It was working fine in 11.0. Whenever I close it all of my windows and panels disappear and I’m left with a empty desktop with nothing but the walllpaper. I try to refresh, rotate the cube, right-click, double-click and do all sorts of things to get back these desktop objects but without any success. The only thing that works is restarting X (ctrl-alt-backspace - 2 times).

I have installed vlc from the packman repo (the problem is there with the vlc from the Videolan repo also). Is anybody else here having the same problem. I have suse 11.1 installed from the GNOME live CD.
Any help will be highly appreciated.:slight_smile:

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UPDATE: I have the same problem with smplayer also.
There seems to be a relation between the two problems because both players use qt interface.

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Have you tried disabling desktop effects? Often compiz and video players have problems in working together.

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That worked, thanks!
Also, I had enabled the video playback plug-in disabling it also solves the problem, so that I don’t have to completely disable desktop effects.
Thanks again;)

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EDIT:
Disabling the video player plug-in does not seem to help (funny it seemed to work a minute ago lol!), you have to completely disable the effects.

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Make sure you follow the steps in this post: Desktop Effects interfers with Video playback - openSUSE Forums

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And disable the VLC repo, you should only have libdvdcss from there, then do update all unconditionally in Packman.

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Thanks for the replies guys.
But, unfortunately, I will not be able take advantage of you advices as I have wiped suse. Now will be using only ubuntu as my linux desktop as this is the one distro which has always delivered OOB performance for me (above suse, fedora, debian, slackware, PCLOS, mandriva and, though I should not be mentioning this one with regard to OOB performance, Arch).
The only other OS on my laptop, alongside ubuntu, is Window for obvious reasons lol! (OOB performance and availability of some software that I require).
Well it was nice using suse (though the only version that actually worked for me was 10.3) but its now time to bid goodbye to this amazing ditro.:’(:wink:

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What’s wrong with the Videolan repository? It’s enabled in both my openSUSE machines, and I have experienced no problems yet.

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Packages in VLC and Packman can conflict. We even recommend you use the VLC player from Packman. It’s just advice. Take it or leave it.

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Naturally I take your advice. I only wanted to know.

I had a clean image of openSUSE before the addition of the Videolan repo (and before installing software from it). So I restored the image and installed VLC from Packman. Problem solved. :slight_smile: