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kuba-orlik

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Registered: 2016-10-12

Posts: 7

VLC starts without GUI

When I open VLC, it starts the process, but there's no GUI. Not sure how to debug it. When I run `vlc` in a terminal, the output says:

> vlc
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[000059fccff2f5b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
[000059fccffc4fc0] main playlist: playlist is empty

When I add QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland, I get the same result

> QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland vlc
VLC media player 3.0.21 Vetinari (revision 3.0.21-0-gdd8bfdbabe8)
[00005b527542c5b0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
[00005b52754c1fc0] main playlist: playlist is empty

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 1,029

Re: VLC starts without GUI

In terminal run 'export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland' and then run vlc. If that works then you may add this to your home directory .bashrc or whatever you use.