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David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

[SOLVED] VLC Media > Open File issue

When I open VLC, then select: Media > Open File, the dialog box disappears behind the VLC main window. If I minimize the VLC main window, the Open File dialog box is there on the desktop. Then from there I can select a video file and the video will show and play on the desktop.

This is not normal behavior for VLC. I do not see this behavior in Fedora 20 Gnome or Mageia 4 KDE, nor previously in Arch XFCE. In fact I have never seen this happen with VLC before - even when I was running Bodhi Linux with Enlightenment 17.

I am currently using Arch Linux Enlightenment 0.18.7-1, with VLC 2.1.4-2.

I ran into something similar once with Fedora 19 Gnome, where I had to install usermode-gtk for a password dialog box to appear. However I don't see this package available in Arch. Besides, VLC uses QT.

Works normally:
Mageia 4 KDE
VLC 2.1.2
QT4 4.8.5

Fedora 20 Gnome
VLC 2.1.4-1
QT 4.8.6-2

Any ideas on how to keep the "Open File" dialog box from being a pop-under window?

Last edited by David Batson (2014-05-12 16:03:21)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: [SOLVED] VLC Media > Open File issue

That's probably an Enlightenment issue, not a VLC issue. Similar thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180950

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: [SOLVED] VLC Media > Open File issue

That was the solution.  Thanks!

EDIT: Also, changing the Focus Policy from "Sloppy" to "Pointer" results in much better behavior IMO (at least on my conventional ThinkPad X220 laptop).

Last edited by David Batson (2014-05-13 08:29:47)