vlc-3.0.0, wayland, opens two windows instead of one

vlc-3.0.0 opens two windows instead of one, on wayland. one is the movie, the other is the vlc icon with the right button menu. in gnome.

gnome started like this: export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

in weston, i see only the window with the icon and the menu, but cannot see and reach the one with the video.

this was a little misformated. the build is here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vlc-git/

Please share the screenshot.

But I'm afraid this is a Qt issue.

The last time I checked the Qt5 documentation and headers, there were simply no ways for VLC to embed the video inside the GUI on Wayland. In particular, the window identifier is completely useless with the Wayland QPA (it is just a locally incremented counter). VLC needs a pair of pointers to the Wayland display server connection, and the surface.

Feel free to reopen this bug if/when Qt is fixed. But in the mean time, separate windows is actually the expected behaviour.

(As for the video window not interacting properly, that's a different problem altogether.)

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what do you mean by "video inside the GUI"? what avidemux does, https://github.com/mean00/avidemux2, using QT5?

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opened: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58403 to clarify ...

I mean video embedded in the GUI, obviously.

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Still share the screenshot. Because what I read from the bugreport is the systray button, not the video split from the interface.

video is not inside the vlc window ...

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now the video window is not even a window any more but has no border, cannot be moved or right clicked.

And it broke in which version? AFAIK, window decoration were never implemented on Wayland, and that's a different bug anyway.

i tried to compile 3.0.0 because 2.2.4 would crash gnome with wayland occasionally. and 3.x always was like this, i.e. when i opened the ticket i noticed first time.

what it is also funny: setting WAYLAND_DISPLAY to a non-existing display confuses VLC also. it is displayed as x application, an x window opens which has no right mouse button menu.

and - i am still wondering how it is implemented in avidemux, as there it works. avidemux is also for windows, mac, linux

(leaving closed now, not sure if you read comments anyway)

you are right, what i thought is a second window is the systray icon showing as second window. it displays also in the X version for a very short time as window and then is showing in the systray.

Replying to [comment:13 soloturn]:

you are right, what i thought is a second window is the systray icon showing as second window. it displays also in the X version for a very short time as window and then is showing in the systray.

Try the option to disable the systray.