Comment 19 for bug 1542519

Running 16.04 in 2 different machines, one of which is affected by the bug and the other not.
I prefer to stay with Xenial since I admin a few family systems and the workload reduces over time with Xenial now in caretaker mode.

Each was installed at different times, the unaffected one having been installed almost from the first stable release and having been regularly updated, the affected one having been installed a few weeks ago from an iso saved about 2 years ago and updated at install and regularly since.

The unaffected machine is a 14 inch Clevo laptop with i3 onboard graphics "Broadwell GT1", no special driver noted.
The affected machine is an ASRock mini hybrid desktop affair with i5 onboard graphics "HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2)", no special driver noted.

Both are running the same official package 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.4

Thanks to rtimai's work on this bug, I've given the user a simple shortcut to restart the Unity session - per comment 14
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1542519/comments/14

This is a small burden for such a great version as Xenial with unity has been.