csmilovitz
November 20th, 2011, 04:53 AM
I just upgraded to 11.10. I dislike the Unity frontend and still use Gnome.
The new Ubuntu seemed to be working fine. Then I used Synaptic to install vlc, a video player which I was using before in 11.04. After installing vlc, whenever I opened a directory with the Gnome graphic interface (eg Places/<disk name>), instead of having the directory open as you would expect, it opens in the select screen for vlc. When you choose a file, vlc tries to open it as a media file and play it, which almost always results in an error. I'm just browsing my directories, and most of them don't contain media files.
If I remove (ie uninstall) vlc, everything is fine. Reinstalling vlc brings the problem back. The problem occurs even if I do an "uninstall completely" before reinstalling.
This seems totally weird.
Craig
The new Ubuntu seemed to be working fine. Then I used Synaptic to install vlc, a video player which I was using before in 11.04. After installing vlc, whenever I opened a directory with the Gnome graphic interface (eg Places/<disk name>), instead of having the directory open as you would expect, it opens in the select screen for vlc. When you choose a file, vlc tries to open it as a media file and play it, which almost always results in an error. I'm just browsing my directories, and most of them don't contain media files.
If I remove (ie uninstall) vlc, everything is fine. Reinstalling vlc brings the problem back. The problem occurs even if I do an "uninstall completely" before reinstalling.
This seems totally weird.
Craig