How can I make my playlist window layout permanent ?

[vlc-user]

Hi there,

I am using VLC for videos exclusively. Never vor music.

Some of the movies have very long titles, so I want to use as much ot the playlist window's width as possible for the title.
So, I removed all columns except the title and the playing time.

But when I close and reopen VLC, the "Album" column is back. Not always, but very, very often.

Also, I don not need the album art at the left part of the playlist window. Minimizing it by moving the separator to the bottom leaves more height for the menu. But it comes back every time I open VLC.

Can I make my column layout and the minimized album art area permanent ?

[zarathustra2k1]

This.... ^^

Been using VLC as my main video player for as long as I've been watching AVIs via PC. The OP's question is one of my few (tiny) annoyances with an otherwise-excellent application.

Thanks!

zar =]

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

OK, you have corrupted preferences. Delete your .config/vlc folder

[vlc-user]

Deleting the config helped only for a short time.

It seems to be an issue when using multiple instances of VLC. But I don't want to give up using multiple instances ...

Let me explan the way I use VLC:
I have two PC's. One is running 24/7 (therefore it's built to save energy, making it unsuitable for many applications such as video editing). On this 24/7 PC, I have installed the famous video recorder software VDR. And it' s headless (i.e. no monior connected), just a video and file server. The other one is my desktop PC. I use VLC mainly for watching recorded TV shows.

Let's say I am watching a TV show recorded the previous day. At the same time, I am recording a live show of which I know it's overdrawn often. Because of the known overdrawing, I have set the VDR timer to end 2 hours later than stated in the EPG.

In order to aviod wasting too much disk space, I want to check regularly if the recording show has ended. As the VDR-PC is headless, I can only use my desktop PC to peek in the latest VDR file chunk.
As I don't want to lose the position of the currently watched show, I open a second VLC instance for this peek action, and then close it.

This means, I always close the instances in reverse order I opened them. And except moving windows to a different position, I don't change any settings. When I change settings, I ensure I only have one instance open.

After opening and closing the second (and rarely third) instance, the playlist window layout is back on default. Even if I have the first instance (with still correct layout) open, close this one as last one and open VLC again, my layout has gone.
As long as I only use one instance, everything seems to work fine.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hmm, that is a good debugging... PLease file a bugreport with this information...