VLC opens mysterious second window

[Ryan Rix]

On Tue 11 May 2010 12:57:58 pm Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 13:14 -0600, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> > vlc-1.1.0-0.6.pre4.fc13.x86_64
> > 
> > I am not sure if this is the right place to post, but as VLC has been
> > coming from kde-redhat lately, here goes...
> > 
> > When I open VLC, a mysterious second window opens. It is tiny, say about
> > 0.5 cm wide and 1 cm long and it has the 'X' icon. One can stretch the
> > window and there is just garbled nothingness inside. Closing VLC also
> > closes this window. It is somehow tied to VLC. Under VLC View menu, I
> > see docked playlist toggled on, but toggling it off does not close this
> > window, yet it is somehow tied to VLC. Closing this window causes plasma
> > to crash.
> 
> Seeing the same.
> F12, latest KDE-unstable.

Sounds like the tray icon isn't being properly embedded in the system tray. 
If you have icons set to auto-hide (you have an arrow in the system tray 
allowing you to expand it) try clicking that to see if it re-embeds the 
icon.

> - Gilboa

Ryan

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