Robin Lee wrote:
Thanks for letting me know I'm not the only one.
Also been launching VLC from a terminal lately and sometimes it also
doesn't terminate cleanly that way. I close the VLC window, it
disappears from system panel, but in the terminal window the prompt is
not returned. Ctrl-c returns the prompt and VLC doesn't show up anymore
in system monitor.
I also experienced the same and more recent Vlc weirdness.
I fixed it by removing the config file with:
$ mv ~/.config/vlc ~/.config/vlc--00--maybe-broken
If you don't need the old config, try it.