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Hey there, I would like to use one of the wonderful skins, that are available. But the problem is, when skinned, the UI is very very tiny. Not usable. The often mentioned method of using "export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS" only works for the standard VLC-UI and unfortunately not for the skinn...

Hey there, I have a freshly installed VLC-Player ... and I am trying to change the button-icons, i.e. the icons on Play-button, Stop-Button, etc. ... ... The reason is, that VLC does not use the system-wide icon-theme. And with a dark color-theme the icons are hard to see. I did exactly this already...

Do you run Linux?

PS: I cannot find the button to edit my previous post ... so I write it here:

My above workaround is for linux users of course.

Btw, ... there are quite a lot of people asking for this feature outside of this forum too!

Yes!!! ... from me too! Please add this feature! Even just a command for doing the same as Ctrl+W does. Otherwise, at the end of the day I would have a totally full and cluttered playlist. I found a workaround though. Since the playlist gets deleted on closing, I use the following command. And I add...

I found a solution:

Change the system-theme ... start vlc ... save the home/user/.config file as /home/user/.config_alternative ... change back the system-theme to the original one.

Start vlc with:

Works like a charm!

Hello everybody, I am trying to change vlc's color scheme to a dark one. Just vlc's ... not the system wide one. For this I did edit the vlcrc ... but without success .... vlc still takes the system scheme. What am I missing here? Can you help me? Best regards, Thomas PS: I am running Linux Mint 18....