I can confirm this bug, and that changing the video output to "OpenGL GLX video output(XCB)" as per comment #15 appears to work around the issue (thanks epoxy!).
My system: Ubuntu 16.04 Kernel 4.4.0-31-generic Acer Aspire F15 laptop CPU Intel i7-6500U (Skylake) Nvidia GeForce 940M (probably not in use) VLC media player 2.2.2 Weatherwax (revision 2.2.2-0-g6259d80) VLC version 2.2.2 Weatherwax (2.2.2-0-g6259d80) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537053 Title: vlc screen always on top, buggly. Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I don't know whether it's due to 15.10 or due to my laptop being a very new model "Asus Zenbook 305CA". The screen is always on top. Even if it is minimized. The gif below takes may some ten seconds to load. http://imgur.com/N3AZkiH And in addition, the video quality is sensibly worse than it should be, compared to Totem video player which functions properly. vlc revision 2.2.1-0-ga425c42 ubuntu 15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1537053/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
