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jobin
Asked: 2013-09-24 10:59:53 +0800 CST

Menu bar is no more visible in vlc

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VLC was working fine until this happened: The menu bar is no more visible. I don't remember making any configuration changes, though I have tried to revert them, if any with the help of this question:

Attaching a screenshot of the problem I am talking about: vlc error

The menu bar is visible from all other applications I use regularly. Also, I am able to access the menu options using Alt + M/H/A/V, but this is very inconvenient.

How do I make it visible again?

Specifications:

  • Ubuntu 12.10
  • VLC media player 2.0.8 Twoflower
vlc

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Couldn't find a clean way of resolving this, so did a complete reinstallation of vlc, based on user2325513's comment as follows:

    sudo apt-get purge vlc

    Searched for files containing "vlc" in their name using

    find / -name vlc

    Deleted all configuration files found using this as

    rm -r ~/.config/vlc
rm -r ~/.cache/vlc

    Installed vlc using apt

    sudo apt-get install vlc

    Found that vlc had its menu bar back!

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  2. Just remove VLC's .cache and .config file, using these commands in a terminal window:

    rm -r ~/.config/vlc
rm -r ~/.cache/vlc
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