On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 7:45 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The .desktop file for VLC in /usr/share/applications has not been > changed. But I cannot launch VLC from the applications menu. > > What is the path to vlc in the .desktop file? Usually (but not always) found ona line beginning with Exec= >From the command line sudo apt install vlc says it is already installed > and the latest version. A reinstall from the command line also > accomplished nothing. > I assume by "reinstall" you mean the literal reinstall command to apt. You may also want to try a remove, then a purge, then an install. This will blow out config files and such. > From the command line 'vlc' launches the player, even if I can't launch > it from the applications menu, and then I can use File > Open to play > the file. Or I can just launch VLC from the command line and drag a > video file from a file manager and drop it on the VLC window. > That's good; that means the problem is with the OS rather than the application. > I need to figure out what is the difference between launching from the > command line and launching from the applications menu. The difference is that the menu icon uses the .desktop file to determine how to launch vlc. > what the heck happened that caused the breakage? > > I could not even begin to guess. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
