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I was watching a movie in Fullscreen mode and after I clicked 'mute' my control panel disappeared??
Can't figure out how to put it back there.. The option as describes in this post viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50805 is marked 'ON' but the control panel isn't there?

Does anybody have the solution?

Oh, by the way, I have XP SP3 and I am using VLC 0.9.4

Reset VLC settings and restart VLC.

Thanks for the reply but resetting to standard-settings didn't do the job..

edit; Never mind.. Shortage of patience made me reinstall the player and the control panel is now back where it belongs.

Thanks anyway.

I have this same problem -- the interface in full screen mode has disappeared without a trace, despite the correct options being set in the preferences dialog.

I tried resetting prefs and restarting, but that did not correct the problem.

Any ideas short of reinstalling?

Many thanks!

Hi,

I also have this problem. With version 0.9.8a on my one computer, there is no fullscreen controller even with the enabled setting in the interface configuration for Qt. On my laptop, where I use the version 0.9.8, the fullscreen controller is visible (it works also with 0.9.8 on my laptop).

How can I re-activate the fullscreen controller? I like this new feature.

remove %appdata%\vlc folder and then start VLC.

remove %appdata%\vlc folder and then start VLC.

No effect, I do not see any fullscreen controller

remove %appdata%\vlc folder and then start VLC.

Well that did work for me, thanks!

I had the same problem. the gray control panel suddenly disappeared.
Removing C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\vlc (windows vista) worked also for me.
Well.. this means that the programmers should change the way VLC resets its setting

I can't imagine why this does not work for me - no matter what I do, I don't the the fullscreen controller. Any further ideas?

patb, you run multimonitor setup? And you have all vlc.exe instances killed before you remove the VLC application data folder?

patb, you run multimonitor setup? And you have all vlc.exe instances killed before you remove the VLC application data folder?

Sorry for my late answer, I was very busy the last days.

Yes, I run multimonitor setup (by the way, I also have the problem, that fullscreen is only on my first monitor, but that's another story).

I've killed all vlc instances before removing the VLC app data folder (%appdata%\vlc), but I do not see any fullscreen controller. Might be linked to the "fullscreen only on the first monitor" problem?

Can I do anything to bugtrack the problem?

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=52562#p171410
maybe same issue?

Hello,
I had the same problem.
I confirm that the control panel was simply out of the viewable area of my screen.
I edited the file "vlc-qt-interface.ini" in the %appdata%\vlc and changed the values of the parameter to arbitrary low values:

[FullScreen]
pos=@Point(143 365)

The numbers were both very large; I gave the shown low values.
Running VLC again, in full screen I get the panel in the middle of the screen ...

Next I closed VLC, removed the two lines, re-run VLC again : all becomes fine again!

Thanks to the previous poster !

Merry Chritmas all.

Hello,

I run the following setup:

Primary display: res. of 1920x1200
Secondary display: res. of 1050x1680 (rotated by 90° and left of the first display)

The [FullScreen] section in the vlc-qt-interface.ini file looks like this:
The y-value is obviously off-screen.

When I manually adjust the position, I can bring the fullscreen controller back into the visible area. But when I then remove the [FullScreen] section from the ini file, VLC will recreate that section, again with the wrong position.

Does anyone know if this bug has already been reported or is there an appropriate trac-ticket already?

Thanks a lot!

I couldn't find one by using trac search.

I also have this "lost control panel" problem with version 9.08a - I did not have it with version 9.2

after lots of frustration , I found this thread & then checked my .ini file.
the cursor settings in my .ini file were placing the controller off screen. e.g. Y value was 1100+ & my screen is only 1680 x 1050
After manually editing them, by trial & error, I have the controller back where it should be & all seems well, for now

PS related issue - the ( in fullscreen) option of "move mouse to side of screen & interface will then appear" does not seem to work either - is that also a known bug & does that hasve a work-around.

Got here by google so thought I'd post that this helped me. I lost my full-screen control panel too and didn't think to look for a config file. I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 and VLC 0.9.4. The config file was ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf. I just changed the "pos" variable to look like this:

[FullScreen]
pos=@Point(5 5)

And got it back. Hope that helps someone.

Thanks man!

When is this going to be fixed? Seems like a strange thing to have to manually change a config file to resolve an issue that could be avoided with a simple boundary condition check before changing the position values....

Edit: I run in 1280x1024, the values are currently "pos=@Point(934 1826)" and halving them gives "pos=@Point(467 913)" which does not put it right back where it was originally. I'd check the logic in that piece of code. I make mistakes like that now & then so I've gotten fairly good at tracking them down. I moved it with the cursor to where I think it was originally and checked the values "pos=@Point(364 961)". Guesstimating I'm thinking it took the existing x-coord and subtracted it from the screen-max (1280 - current_cursor_point_x = ~934). The y-coord is a bit of a mystery but I'm thinking the current value is being added to the new position (current_cursor_point_y + (1024 - dialog_height) = ~1826). Missing (or screwy) brackets? I'm assuming because I can still move it wherever I want that the function works in most cases but at the extreme it'll manifest (a rare case?) so I'm sticking with my check boundary conditions suggestion. For reproducing the circumstances try clicking on the pause button and while holding the left mouse button down drag to the bottom of the screen and release.

There are trac tickets for few issues. And according to Random, some of the issues are gone by QT update. So next version (1.0.0) should be little better.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2460
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2429

Windows XP instructions:

1) C:\Documents and Settings\[ur_username]\Application Data\vlc
Note: IF you are not seeing application data, its because your folder options are not configured to show Hidden files. To correct this, go to Tools>Folder Options>View Tab>under Hide Hidden Files and Folders, choose Show Hidden Files & Folders.
Hit Ok.
2)In the VLC Folder, locate the vlc-qt-interface file. Double-click it. By default, it should open in Notepad. If for whatever reason, it opens up in another application, right click the file and choose Open With..point to Notepad.
3)Once you have the vlc-qt-interface opened, you'll notice its a pretty small string of text for configuration settings

The whole thing looks like this:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[General]
updatedate=@Variant(\0\0\0\xe\0%u\x99)

[MainWindow]
pl-dock-status=33590275
playlist-visible=0
adv-controls=2
backgroundSize=@Size(720 156)
geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x1\0\0\0\0\x2\xa1\0\0\x1\x42\0\0\x5x\0\0\x3\xe\0\0\x2\xa5\0\0\x1j\0\0\x5t\0\0\x3\n\0\0\0\0\0\0)

[FullScreen]
pos=@Point(678 1016)

[Update]
geometry=@ByteArray(\x1\xd9\xd0\xcb\0\x1\0\0\0\0\x3&\0\0\x1`\0\0\x4Y\0\0\x2\xb7\0\0\x3*\0\0\x1\x88\0\0\x4U\0\0\x2\xb3\0\0\0\0\0\0)

-------------------------------------------------
4) Locate [FullScreen]
change the setting for pos=@Point(678 1016)
The first number represents the X value and second represents the y value.

For me (on a 1920 x 1020 resolution), pos=@Point(682 1012)
seemed to be near center.

Good luck!

I guess this is better than having to re-install.

I did what you stated then set the file to "read only". moved the window then restarted. the full screen controller stayed put! if you get it (the full screen controller) on screen you can just place it where you want it, then set the vlc-qt-interface.ini to read only, and restart. Hope this helps, I'm glad there are others figuring out the majority of these problems; I just got frustrated and gave up until I read this.

In RE to:
Hello,

I run the following setup:

Primary display: res. of 1920x1200
Secondary display: res. of 1050x1680 (rotated by 90° and left of the first display)

The [FullScreen] section in the vlc-qt-interface.ini file looks like this:

Code: Select all
[FullScreen]
pos=@Point(1185 1618)



The y-value is obviously off-screen.

When I manually adjust the position, I can bring the fullscreen controller back into the visible area. But when I then remove the [FullScreen] section from the ini file, VLC will recreate that section, again with the wrong position.

Does anyone know if this bug has already been reported or is there an appropriate trac-ticket already?

Thanks a lot!

does anyone know if it it possible to set a [FullScreen] tag for each screen?
If i'm watching a movie on my first screen I want my controls on the first screen an when I watch it on de second screen I want my controls on the second screen without changing this ini file everytime.

Thanks a lot.

Use 1.0.0-rc1, where this is fixed.