VLC media player for Linux and friends Troubleshooting • Can adjust vertical size but not full-width horizontal



When I open and then close certain videos that occupy the full screen width, after that other smaller videos always open — with the correct aspect ratio — occupying a window which has the correct vertical dimension, but takes up the full width of the screen, so the image is centered horizontally in the window with black borders on both sides. The window CANNOT be resized horizontally by grabbing its left or right edge: they don’t permit themselves to be grabbed.

This can be fixed by resetting ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf; then videos once again show in properly sized windows… until the next time.

What is causing this bad behavior, and how can it be prevented? How can it be handled from vlc’s interface?

Manjaro 6.8.4-1, vlc 3.0.20 Vetinari.

Statistics: Posted by djcv — 10 Apr 2024 14:29