Removing right click menu from Linux skin

[peluchex23]

Hello all,

I have been given the task of preventing users from controlling out VLC Player.

We have some 50 live stream cameras that can be viewed using VLC Player.
Our environment is extremely limited for the end users.
They can only view these cameras using a Linux Desktop Menu that we provide.

I created a skin to remove ALL buttons from VLC. The end user can only Maximize, UnMaximize, Minimize, Close, Resize and FullScreen the window.
The only problem is that when they right click on any part of the window a menu comes up allowing all the functionality that we are trying to remove.

How can I restrict the right click menu from showing up?

The player is VLC media player 2.0.4 running on RHEL 6 Workstation Edition.

Any advice will be appreciated.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You can remove the Qt module, maybe.

[peluchex23]

Thank you for the completely useless reply. Please can someone actually post a useful message?

[erwan10]

Well, actually the easiest way to meet these requirements is indeed to remove the dependance on the Qt module. The only reason why the Qt module is launched by the skin engine is to provide popup menus, key accelerators and dialog boxes (preferences, message log, ....). No Qt module and you just disable all these things. As of today, the skin engine won't start if the Qt module is not launched successfully, but that should not be too difficult to patch the source code and have a skin engine run without the Qt module.

[peluchex23]

Well, actually the easiest way to meet these requirements is indeed to remove the dependance on the Qt module. The only reason why the Qt module is launched by the skin engine is to provide popup menus, key accelerators and dialog boxes (preferences, message log, ....). No Qt module and you just disable all these things. As of today, the skin engine won't start if the Qt module is not launched successfully, but that should not be too difficult to patch the source code and have a skin engine run without the Qt module.

Thank you for the response. We are using an older version and we are not allowed to build the source code our self. I search the forums and found a request going back to 2005 requesting a feature to remove the menu. Do we need to start a petition on change.org

Can you give me an example on how to block the Qt module?
All I need is actually a video to play. Well I also need to maximize, unmaximize, minimize, toggle full screen mode and close the window. These features will probably need the module but it is worth the try.

Thank you,

Gerardo Diaz

[erwan10]

Can you give me an example on how to block the Qt module?

There is no way to block the Qt module and still use the skin engine in the current version. But, as I said, it should be easy to write a patch that makes the Qt module optional and therefore allows to disable all popupmenus, key accelerators and the various dialog boxes.

All I need is actually a video to play. Well I also need to maximize, unmaximize, minimize, toggle full screen mode and close the window. These features will probably need the module

These aforementioned features don't require the Qt module. They will still be available if the skin engine is run without the Qt module.

Alternatively, you can also opt for the dummy interface (vlc -I dummy file:///path/video.ext). You will get the video to be played back in a basic window. That may just be what you are looking for.