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As I said, that seems rather impractical with the current OS designs - unless you have graphic card and monitor with variable refresh rate that is.

Ten years later, I do. X11 is gone-ish and the problem remains.

Hardware: multiple PCs each with multiple users. HDHomerun Prime serving FiOS TV to the router. Software: kUbuntu, VLC, various scripts to load different playlists (launched by child-proof pretty icons). Problem: Each playlist was appended to the previous playlist Goal: Zero user intervention to nor...

To expound... #!/bin/bash xdotool windowactivate --sync 77594630 key ctrl+w & sleep .01 vlc <PATH TO XSPF file> I have been a linux user for about a week. I fully expect my little hack to fail soon. Why? Because found the [windowid] of the single VLC instance with the command xdotool search --na...

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 ad...