vlc window at run show itself with a very hight vertical size

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

Description: Ubuntu quantal (development branch)
Release: 12.10

vlc:
  Installato: 2.0.3-2
  Candidato: 2.0.3-2
  Tabella versione:
 *** 2.0.3-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

At start vlc show itself with a valid horizontal size and an infinite or very hight vertical size.
I tried with alt + mouse drag to reach the lower border (the window is panning good) but i cannot reach it after ten or more tries...

Also maximize and restore vlc main window do not solve...

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: vlc 2.0.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-11.11-generic 3.5.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 21 23:54:00 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-15 (6 days ago)

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

You could remove the vlc configuration (rm -r ~/.config/vlc/) or take more tries to reduce the size.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Very likely it is this bug, Bug 1005677 - to test
remove ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf
Start vlc from terminal with

LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 vlc