Bump. GUI-based logging setting is not working for me either. I'm currently on Arch 4.0.5 with VLC 2.2.1 . Log file is set to /home/{home}/log/vlc.log . Log format text. syslog ident vlc. syslog facility user. verbosity 2. Restarted vlc multiple times. tried higher verbosity, seems like 2 is the hig...