blanks in system tray icons with vlc
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Linux Mint |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am running Mint 17 64bit Cinnamon and have been doing so since it became available. I have not had any problems with it until recently when I started using vlc quite a lot from a python/Tkinter script.
The script selects songs from a python list which is filled by another part of the script from a file of songs in mp3 format.
The number of files selected is such that the program will fit as many as it is able into a 30 minute slot.
It creates a command line which is of the format:
vlc path-to-
It does an os-system call to vlc with the appropriate command line
.
Vlc launches and plays the songs then closes and so I can then run it again as many times as I like.
The problem is that after playing a number of songs the icons in the system tray disappear.
All I get is a dark grey box where each one should be. If I click on, for example, the one for the sound settings a grey box pops up with nothing visible in it.
If I click on the one for 'menu' a large dark grey box appears and nothing can be seen so much so that I have to hover over different areas and clicking until eventually I get the "Suspend Hibernate Restart Cancel Shutdown" options all of which are perfectly clear and completely normal.
Unless I at least log out and log in again I cannot seem to recover them.
The whole system becomes slower and slower but I have no idea why and I have no idea how to test if it is an issue with the cinnamon, vlc, the python call or for that matter something else entirely.
This happens whether I run vlc or cvlc and with either syntax for quiting vlc i.e
vlc path-to-
or
vlc --play-and-exit path-to-
and either one with the cvlc alternative
I have this setup:- VLC 2.1.4 Linux Mint 17 with all updates Python 2.7.6 running on a HP G6 laptop with 4 Gig ram.
