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As pointed out up-thread: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=149762&start=25#p501505 you can use XVideo (3.0.x) or X11 RENDER (4.0) as a work around but it will increase CPU usage. XVideo also hurts subtitle quality. Whoops, I do admit that I skipped reading page 2 and skimmed ...

I had the same issue on Ubuntu 20.04 with Vega M GPU, tray icon mentioned in post above did not work BUT found this on reddit that worked for me: Preferences > Video > Output > XVideo output (XCB) > save and restart player Now it closes fine with X while video is still playing, tray icon ENABLED, si...