VLC KDE lockscreen notification

[vojtechkral]

Hi,
I use VLC to listen to music. Sometimes I pause a track, leave VLC open and lock the screen when I need to go fetch a cup of tea or something.
In that case VLC displays the current track icon and name on the lockscreen. I'd like it not to do that (honestly I don't see how this is useful).
I wasn't able to find any reference to this neither in KDE settings nor in VLC settings nor somewhere else online.
I tried disabling VLC tray icon and track change popup in the settings but this doesn't affect the locksreen display.

Anyone can help?
Thanks!

[chubinou]

Hello,

vlc allows to be remotely controlled using the D-Bus MPRIS protocol. This can be disabled starting vlc with "--no-dbus"

[vojtechkral]

Thanks for the info about MPRIS. Sadly, my VLC seems to have no D-Bus related command line options.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

At any rate, that is a feature of KDE, not VLC. Disable the KDE multimedia controller or whatever its name is, in the KDE desktop settings.