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I've just noticed this behaviour on my Fedora Core 4 install running 8.2

When I start vlc as root I get a proper GTK interface (or one that looks like GTK) but when I run it as a normal user account I only get the motif UI.



Here you can see the difference. I've opened a console and run vlc as root & then as the logged in user.

I know it's not a major problem but any ideas why this would be happening?

Also it would be nice to have keybindings for DVD style operations such as Next Title/Previous Title. Currently there is only Next/Previous Chapter which goes through the playlist instead of the DVD titles.

Thanks Keep up the good work. So far VLC has been the only media player I've needed under Win/Linux.

Did you reset your preferences already? This should help there, since the root-account uses a different preferences-set (probably the default one) than your main user-account.

Yeah I did try that. I deleted the entire ~/.vlc directory with the same results.

Is there a way to force the gtk interface from the command line?

The left GUI is not GTK+, but WxWindows/WxWidgets actually. Our native GTK+-interface is outdated and wasn't maintained for ages, so you shouldn't use it.
The Wx-interface can be called through ./vlc --intf=wxwin (that's the token I remember, perhaps it is wxwindows or just wx -- please try that on your own; I cannot do that on OSX atm).

How do I get the nice interfaces you have here and on the screenshot pages?

-I am using debian sid package
-vlc, wxvlc, vlc --intf wxwindows, vlc --intf gtk do all the same: a quite ugly interface using gtk 1.2 theme (ugly aliased fonts etc...). And can't find any gtk1.x theme that could be as good as the ones shown on screenshot page.

the "ugly" interface I'm talkin about is the same as the one you name as the native GTK+ interface on the screenshot of this topic.

the "ugly" interface I'm talkin about is the same as the one you name as the native GTK+ interface on the screenshot of this topic.

that was me, sorry for flooding.

You should get wxgtk 2.6 from source or from experimental to have gtk2 ( themes, font, ...)

hth,

right, I tried to do so without success after noticing that debian package wxwidgets was compiled for gtk1. I compiled wxwidgets and vlc from sources, but vlc keeps launching with a skin2 non-usable interface (tried to force gtk as well, didn't work)

Did you force gtk2 when compiling wxWidgets?

yep (not needed for wxwidgets 2.6 though). It seems to be an installation problem since library is not detected (may not be in the right path).
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installed wxwidgets 2.6 library from experimental debian. compiling vlc, error in wizard.cpp: something with a cast (const char * => char *, line 1088). Removed the cast, compiled well (error is now a warning), and is finally working... quite experimental procedure though.

although I think this post has a better place in the linux section, I will tell a clean solution to have wxwidgets using gtk2 with VLC in debian, without having to recompile all the program.

I installed official package (vlc 0.8.4 10/08/2005) as well as experimental libwxgtk2.6 (-dev) package. I got the source from debian (apt-get source) and just recompiled the modules/gui/wxwidgets/libwxwidgets_plugin.so module, which I replaced in /usr/lib/vlc/gui/. It is now using the new library with gtk2, while I still have a clean (at least debian's...) installation of VLC. I just updated one GUI module from the same sources, so no mix at all, just a recompilation of a module using an up-do-date library.

installed wxwidgets 2.6 library from experimental debian. compiling vlc, error in wizard.cpp: something with a cast (const char * => char *, line 1088). Removed the cast, compiled well (error is now a warning), and is finally working... quite experimental procedure though.

the latter is far better than my crappy compilation I did before. Although this one worked quite well, some codec support was missing (at lead mp4/faad). I didn't like the fact it won't compile without modifying the source, has someone identify the error I quoted above? (using gcc4).

although I think this post has a better place in the linux section, I will tell a clean solution to have wxwidgets using gtk2 with VLC in debian, without having to recompile all the program.

I installed official package (vlc 0.8.4 10/08/2005) as well as experimental libwxgtk2.6 (-dev) package. I got the source from debian (apt-get source) and just recompiled the modules/gui/wxwidgets/libwxwidgets_plugin.so module, which I replaced in /usr/lib/vlc/gui/. It is now using the new library with gtk2, while I still have a clean (at least debian's...) installation of VLC. I just updated one GUI module from the same sources, so no mix at all, just a recompilation of a module using an up-do-date library.

VLC, "apt-get source vlc" of course. libwxgtk2.6 are ok.