vlc & mplayer lost window borders and controls

[L Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM, icemaca <icemaca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

That's always been the behavior of mplayer for me. I think you have to
pass it the "-gui" flag (or run it as gmplayer) to get the graphical
interface, otherwise you're stuck with the keyboard controls.

<3 keyboard controls.