round corners, full screen, movie out to the edges, hidden controls, this is a dream player for me.
Except, see “all others.” ^ Dragging cursor 30 min ahead results in crash. File too big I guess. They all crash if manhandled.
I downloaded a VLC skins pack…auditioned about 50% of them…they still look like VLC. But I never warmed up to how VLC looks (I am so shallow apparently).
Do I need a Linux Therapist, or can I make VLC look like Gnome-Video?
Fortunately, you’re in luck because the solution is probably right in front of you.
Lovingly take a screenshot of your desktop in all its glory, without any applications open. Print that out, and applying craft glue generously to the back of it, stick it to your otherwise pristine screen.
Using a very sharp razor, cut out a rectangle in the middle of your freshly stuck on “desktop”, roughly to the size of your videos, but very importantly, do not neglect to add rounded corners!
At this point, you’re probably asking yourself, among other things, “why did I apply craft glue to the back of the area that I’m now trying to cut out, getting it off is going to be a nightmare”. But I trust you’ll figure that little mess out.
Once that glue has been left to dry fully, you can watch your treasured movies in VLC, with those amazing rounded corners your heart desires.
Hugs,
Abby
PS: Please don’t do that. Have you tried mpv instead?
MPV has the rounded corners (under KDE Plasma), but there’s still the title bar at the top. That can be switched off, but then the round corners switch off too, at least in my experiments so far.
In the Linux media player Canon, I’d say MPV is the one I’ve spent the least amount of time with. I know MPV and VLC are distro creators’ staple Players…for good reason. They are both defaults for a lot of things.
Looks-wise (I told you my reasons were only shallowly aesthetic) they were always meh.
The top bar coming off of MPV (had no idea) is making it worth a look.
Once I saw that movie-expanding-to-the-whole-app thing I could not un-see it. For a 24” screen all real estate is valuable.
Mpv does nothing, it let the window manager doing its things. For example with Xfce, I use Picom as compositor, I have rounded corners set for my windows, but Mpv.
#### NO ROUNDED CORNERS for certain apps ####
{
match = "class_g = 'mpv' && focused";
corner-radius = 0;
},
