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I have a setup where VLC is launched by another application at a fixed position and size, so the skin needs to have a static size. The skin has been created so that it is resizable, and the launching application sometimes needs to change the position and size. The thing is, using --width and --height just crops the skin.

Is there currently a method to make the skinned window resize itself from the command line?

If not, maybe I should make a feature request for an option to send a resize message to the window from the command line.

It is not possible to change the position of the skin after it VLC has been started. However, with the current development version (http://nightlies.videolan.org/) it is possible to specify the layout and its size from the command-line, using the --skins2-config option (beware that the format of the option has changed since the last release).

Changing position after VLC has been started isn't a big issue for me. The --skins2-config option sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, I'll test the nightly build. Thanks for the info!