vlc & mplayer lost window borders and controls

[Morgan Wesström]

icemaca wrote:
> hi,
> i have a fresh 7.1 i386  with gnome2-lite and fvwm-crystal fully built
> from ports this w/e and fully up to date (including new Xorg).
> 
> when i try to run both vlc and mplayer from menus, nothing seems to
> happen. from the terminal they run when i include a filename (eg vlc
> 1233.avi ormplayer 1234.avi) but i get a borderless window playing
> video, and have no controls; in both gnome and fvwm.
> 
> the packages work fine, which is ver 0.8.x something i think for vlc,
> but updating to 0.9.x in ports produced this problem and i am not sure
> if it is something in the config options or other missing depends.
> 
> i previously built vlc with ncurses option and had both  console and
> x11  versions work fine, but i can't figure out what aalib and libcaca
> are, the differnece between them or which one i may need or not.
> 
> is this issue related to these options?

VLC 0.9.x needs Qt4 for its gui nowadays.
/Morgan