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These "Windows logo" key combinations interact only with top-level windows. The skins2 windows are no such windows. They are owned by a hidden null-sized window that groups them together for minimizing the whole lot, for having one single icon in the taskbar, ..... As a result, they are no...

Controlling a specific button with the keyboard is not implemented in skins. That said, all keys offered at the vlc core level are intrinsically supported. For instance, the space bar does pause the video. In the current release, key accelerators pertaining to popup menus are not implemented though,...

uncheck "Resize interface to video size" in preferences. In order to access this check box, you first need to select "Use native style", check or uncheck it as you wish, then opt for either "native style" or "use custom skin". In other words, the parameter wor...

The backport to vlc-2-2 actually already occurred .

So it is fixed for both vlc-3.0 (the dev version, no release date) and vlc-2.2 (the next release that should be rolled out soon). Both versions can be dowloaded as nightly builds for testing purpose.

Thanks for reporting these issues. The test case proved very useful ! A new nightly build (http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/) should be available as soon as tomorrow. Please, use the vlc3.0.0 branch. Any additional tests are very welcomed to ensure everything got fixed properly. The test case was...

It may be a bug. If so, please fill in a bug report (https://trac.videolan.org/vlc) and attach a .vlt file as a test case to demonstrate this flash issue. I will then have a look at it and fix it if needed.

Actually, I had not realized you were using an Image tag. Animated images do work only with Button or Checkbox tags. It is not implemented with the Image tag as weird as it may seem ! This is how it was designed long ago, and it should not be a problem since a button with no action is actually equiv...

Please, set verbosity to 2 and check the logs. Chances are that you have warnings such as : [091494e0] skins2 interface warning: drawBitmap: source rect too small, ignoring [091494e0] skins2 interface warning: sub-bitmap Layout2_Animation_Open ignored [091494e0] skins2 interface warning: drawBitmap:...

For some time, I have also met these problems when cross compiling the latest git for Windows from Ubuntu14.04. Here are the two patches I use as a workaround diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index b847f57..d149698 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ AS_IF([test ...

Till now, the skins2 interface was not supporting Qt key accelerators. Yet, that will be fixed in a future release. (probably not the one about to be released, but the next major release)

Good news, the fix for the libtar bug mentioned in this thread has been backported to Ubuntu 14.04 and the like.

Just upgrade your OS (sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade) and 'vlc -I skins' will no longer crash at startup.

This is a known bug in libtar (libtar0 version 1.2.20-3) shipped by Ubuntu14.04. A fix already exists (1.2.20-4), but it is not yet backported to Ubuntu 14.04. The bug is reported. So hopefully, this should be fixed some time soon. As far as vlc is concerned, the bug only affects the skins2 interfac...

In fullscreen mode, the fullscreen controller does it already, right ?

In windowed mode, overlaying skins2 objects on top of a video has not been possible so far.

The skins2 resizing mechanism was designed this way a long long time ago. Changing it now is not trivial at all. Actually, this usually gets annoying when a video is too big and the window gets enlarged far beyond the limit of the screen, making it impossible to grab the bottom-right handle for resi...

Question, do you use virtualbox ? Actually, I did have the same problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu14.04 using virtualbox4.3.10. The faulty library where crash occurs is libtar that vlc uses to open up a skin. This issue seems to be specific to Ubuntu 14.04.Tests with older Ubuntus a...

alt-o and alt-shift-o scales up or down with a 10% step.

At the command line, you need to switch automatic scaling off (--no-autoscale) and then provide a scale factor (e.g --scale .5 or --scale 1.5).

This feature is not implemented in vlc2.1. In the next version (vlc2.2), this feature will be available. Nightly builds are already available for those who wish to test it.

thanks a lot on behalf of all Windows skins2 developpers ! Both zip and .tar.gz formats are equally okay. The former may be more prevalent with MS Windows, whereas the latter is more prevalent with Linux. But, both work fine on both platforms. Yet, if you plan on supporting both platforms, make sure...

xoffset is not an element of the <Image> tag. It can only be passed via a <Panel> tag. Anyway, here is an example of a slider that spans the whole screen dynamically (whatever the screen resolution). It was extracted from a skin that was posted a while ago on this forum. http://www.mirari.fr/1qq5 . ...

position, xmargin, ymargin, xoffset and yoffset parameters are available only for a limited set of tags. The <Image> tags doesn't support them. For tags not directly supporting them, an additional <Panel> tag can be used as an enclosure. Also, don't mix up things. Either you use (position, xmargin, ...

Well, the best way to debug it is to ensure the slider is rendered fine in its basic description (forget about width="100%"). Then, when the slider is ok, add this width="100%" to make everything expand horizontally. Also, beware of x in the Slider description. If you want to ful...

First, layout has to fill up the screen. For instance, <Layout id=... width="100%" ...> means to fill up the screen horizontally. Second, the slider has to be resizeable. Yours is ok in that matter with lefttop="lefttop" rightbottom="righttop". Third, the slider has to ...

So far, dropping subtitles on-the-fly was not implemented in the skins2 interface. A patch has just been committed to remedy this issue. You should get it in the next version.

Are you sure you're testing the same stream with the default interface (Qt) and the skinned interface (skins2) ?
To my knowledge, this user/password dialog box is not managed at the interface level. All interfaces should work the same way.

Thanks for the skin. I fixed two things : - a misspelt id (obviously, a "Mainwindow" should be "MainWindow") - ColorWindow and VolumeWindow initial position (so that they are automatically positioned as soon as the first use or after a reset of config) The corrected .vlt file can...