vlc widow shadow blinking on/off continuously

[S. Patrikios]

After trying -unsuccessfuly- to access a network folder or trying to reach Add ons choice under Tools I got the shadow of a window,or its outeer borders, blinking on/off unstoppingly and bringing the system to a crawl. Closing VLC so far seamed to correct things, but this last time, w/ the Tools, Add ons, choice, I dont realy know.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: vlc 2.0.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-14.16-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 13 23:37:17 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120905.2)
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Edward Donovan (edward.donovan)]

It sounds like you are experiencing bug 1005677. Try the workaround for that, turning off the overlay scrollbars with an environment variable.

You can run vlc and other commands from a terminal like this:

  LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 vlc &

Or you can put

  export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0

in /etc/environment, just until this bug is fixed. If those workarounds do not help, you can un-dupe this bug if you want. Hope this helps. Thanks.

[S. Patrikios (sipatrik-m)]

On 09/14/2012 05:36 AM, Edward Donovan wrote:
> LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 vlc &
Hi! Thanks for the feedback.
None of the solutions described seams to help.
So I will have to wait I guess!
Regards,
SP