Comment 4 for bug 1011194

Since the upgrade to Trusty, this happens to me, too. In my case, this bug is triggered by all kinds of video files. If I try to close the window, it just minimized itself to the notification bar (same with Alt-F4 and Ctrl-Q). I can restore the GUI by double-clicking on the notification bar icon. VLC will eventually close itself after approximately 30 seconds. What makes this even more annoying is that you can't switch to another video during that time (as the playing request will be redirected to that dying process). It is also not possible to restart the current video.

If I start VLC without a video file, I can quit the application immediately. Also, the bug doesn't seem to be triggered by audio files.

To rule out any config issues I have deleted ~/.config/vlc and ~/.local/share/vlc and also tried "vlc --reset-config". It has no effect on this bug.

Desktop environment is Xfce (plain Xfce session, not the Xubuntu one).