The VideoLAN Forums

I loaded a new skin into VLC but I dislike it.

Unfortunately I cannot revert back to the original skin or to another skin. Even selecting Default skin fails.
VLC remains at the current (ugly) skin.
When I move the *.vlt skin file it asks at startup for the missing file.

So the skin file name must be stored somewhere.

Where exactly? In Registry or *.ini file?

Thomas

edit: or just read this post - viewtopic.php?f=15&t=21214&start=45#p181190

- A simple and quick way (Windows XP) is to close VLC and delete the entire C:\Documents and Settings\<your windows login>\Application Data\vlc folder (use start > run > %APPDATA%\vlc to see it) then open VLC. Everything in that folder was created the first time you opened VLC after installing it so deleting it is like going back to as if you had just installed it. You could just delete the vlcrc file in that folder instead.

Alternatively, if you don't want to lose the rest of your preference settings
- Close VLC
- Go to C:\Documents and Settings\<your windows login>\Application Data\vlc
- Open the file vlcrc with notepad (maybe back it up first)
- Find the section that starts "# string (Interface module)"
- change intf=skins2 to intf=, save it
- Open VLC

E.g. change this... ...to this

Just wish to thank you for this useful tip. Got into, and couldn't get out of, a skin I didn't like, which had me worried until I found this tip. Gracias.

I'm trying to get a 'dark theme' in VLC, but the problem is all these skins I've tried do a LOT more than just change the background color. Many of them disable video and make it into an audio only player. Still others don't display Japanese text in the playlist.

Is there a skin that just changes the background color and invert the text color but leaves all other functionality intact?