After closing the VLC window and starting it again no window appears unless you kill the process first

[Kristoffer Grundström]

In order to see the VLC gui window again you have to do:

ps aux | grep vlc

then

kill -9 followed by the processid

When you then open the dash menu and click VLC the window appears.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: vlc 3.0.11.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-38.43-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Mar 7 14:58:45 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-10 (55 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: vlc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)