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lunelovehearn

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Registered: 2024-12-06

Posts: 2

Cannot choose a skin for VLC (skinned) from settings

This has been happening for months already, when I try to select a skin for VLC, the "choose..." button does nothing.

This only happens with VLC from Arch repos, not with the flatpak version. I tried testing on linux mint own repos on my mint PC to compare and this doesn't happen, so it's isolated to Arch Linux native package version of VLC.
if possible, I would like someone to report this to the VLC package maintainer.

the affected VLC version is 3.0.22-3, while the flatpak version of VLC that doesn't has this issue is 3.0.23

I'm using KDE plasma, and I'm fully updated, at the time I'm writing this.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,194

Re: Cannot choose a skin for VLC (skinned) from settings

Make sure the optional dep https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … ui-skins2/ is installed.

lunelovehearn

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Registered: 2024-12-06

Posts: 2

Re: Cannot choose a skin for VLC (skinned) from settings

thanks, that fixed it. now I can select skins without problems. now I finally can remove the flatpak version of VLC and use the native package.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,194

Re: Cannot choose a skin for VLC (skinned) from settings

Great, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the thread title.