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basementcat

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] VLC crashes in KDE

A few days ago, I ran "pacman -Syu" to update my system.

After that, I cannot start VLC by clicking its icon. However, I can start it from konsole and it works fine.

I have already tried the followings:

1. delete ~/.config/vlc
2. sudo /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f /usr/lib/vlc/plugins

Unfortunately, they do not work.

Would anyone here give me some hints to solve this problem?
Thanks.

Last edited by basementcat (2016-10-01 05:55:33)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,427

Re: [SOLVED] VLC crashes in KDE

What is the startup command in the .desktop file set to? you can check in KMenuEditor (or usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop or if there has been some modifications ~/.local/share/applications (IIRC not sure on that one)?) By starting in Konsole you do get the full fledged GUI and everything?

basementcat

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] VLC crashes in KDE

What is the startup command in the .desktop file set to? you can check in KMenuEditor (or usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop or if there has been some modifications ~/.local/share/applications (IIRC not sure on that one)?) By starting in Konsole you do get the full fledged GUI and everything?

Thanks for your help.

Following your suggestion, I check the start up command of VLC in KDE. I find that I use "firejail vlc" instead of "vlc" to lauch the application.

After I remove firejail, VLC works like a charm.

Thanks again.