VLC doesn't open when double-clicking file on Nautilus












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When double-clicking any video (I tried different formats) VLC just open and close again after around 14 seconds:



VLC not running



It works fine if I:




  • Open VLC from terminal or any other way and then open the same file.


  • killall nautilus, run nautilus and double-clic the file (that surprise me).

  • Use Nemo, Double-commander or other file manager and double-clic the file.


Last think make me think is a nautilus bug, but doesn't happened with any other program.



I tried:




  • Bizarre things like tring to fetch stdout/stderr with strace -p`pgrep -l '^vlc$' | col1 | head -1` -s9999 -e write with watch. I couldn't do it.

  • On Exec parameter of /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop I have /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U. without luck I tried changing to:


    • /usr/bin/vlc

    • xterm -e "vlc"


    • gnome-terminal -e "vlc". In this last case before previous behavior I get this window: enter image description here




File format is correctly associated with VLC. If I associate it with other program everything goes fine.



I believe this is a different situation than this one. I already read this, this and this.



Maybe a related useful question could be: How exactly Nautilus run associated program of double-clicked file?



Update 2018-02-12



Now with VLC 2.2.2-0-g6259d80 and GNOME nautilus 3.14.3 I don't have this problem anymore. So probably it was a bug on nautilus (since is the same version of VLC).










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    When double-clicking any video (I tried different formats) VLC just open and close again after around 14 seconds:



    VLC not running



    It works fine if I:




    • Open VLC from terminal or any other way and then open the same file.


    • killall nautilus, run nautilus and double-clic the file (that surprise me).

    • Use Nemo, Double-commander or other file manager and double-clic the file.


    Last think make me think is a nautilus bug, but doesn't happened with any other program.



    I tried:




    • Bizarre things like tring to fetch stdout/stderr with strace -p`pgrep -l '^vlc$' | col1 | head -1` -s9999 -e write with watch. I couldn't do it.

    • On Exec parameter of /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop I have /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U. without luck I tried changing to:


      • /usr/bin/vlc

      • xterm -e "vlc"


      • gnome-terminal -e "vlc". In this last case before previous behavior I get this window: enter image description here




    File format is correctly associated with VLC. If I associate it with other program everything goes fine.



    I believe this is a different situation than this one. I already read this, this and this.



    Maybe a related useful question could be: How exactly Nautilus run associated program of double-clicked file?



    Update 2018-02-12



    Now with VLC 2.2.2-0-g6259d80 and GNOME nautilus 3.14.3 I don't have this problem anymore. So probably it was a bug on nautilus (since is the same version of VLC).










    share|improve this question



























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      When double-clicking any video (I tried different formats) VLC just open and close again after around 14 seconds:



      VLC not running



      It works fine if I:




      • Open VLC from terminal or any other way and then open the same file.


      • killall nautilus, run nautilus and double-clic the file (that surprise me).

      • Use Nemo, Double-commander or other file manager and double-clic the file.


      Last think make me think is a nautilus bug, but doesn't happened with any other program.



      I tried:




      • Bizarre things like tring to fetch stdout/stderr with strace -p`pgrep -l '^vlc$' | col1 | head -1` -s9999 -e write with watch. I couldn't do it.

      • On Exec parameter of /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop I have /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U. without luck I tried changing to:


        • /usr/bin/vlc

        • xterm -e "vlc"


        • gnome-terminal -e "vlc". In this last case before previous behavior I get this window: enter image description here




      File format is correctly associated with VLC. If I associate it with other program everything goes fine.



      I believe this is a different situation than this one. I already read this, this and this.



      Maybe a related useful question could be: How exactly Nautilus run associated program of double-clicked file?



      Update 2018-02-12



      Now with VLC 2.2.2-0-g6259d80 and GNOME nautilus 3.14.3 I don't have this problem anymore. So probably it was a bug on nautilus (since is the same version of VLC).










      share|improve this question
















      When double-clicking any video (I tried different formats) VLC just open and close again after around 14 seconds:



      VLC not running



      It works fine if I:




      • Open VLC from terminal or any other way and then open the same file.


      • killall nautilus, run nautilus and double-clic the file (that surprise me).

      • Use Nemo, Double-commander or other file manager and double-clic the file.


      Last think make me think is a nautilus bug, but doesn't happened with any other program.



      I tried:




      • Bizarre things like tring to fetch stdout/stderr with strace -p`pgrep -l '^vlc$' | col1 | head -1` -s9999 -e write with watch. I couldn't do it.

      • On Exec parameter of /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop I have /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U. without luck I tried changing to:


        • /usr/bin/vlc

        • xterm -e "vlc"


        • gnome-terminal -e "vlc". In this last case before previous behavior I get this window: enter image description here




      File format is correctly associated with VLC. If I associate it with other program everything goes fine.



      I believe this is a different situation than this one. I already read this, this and this.



      Maybe a related useful question could be: How exactly Nautilus run associated program of double-clicked file?



      Update 2018-02-12



      Now with VLC 2.2.2-0-g6259d80 and GNOME nautilus 3.14.3 I don't have this problem anymore. So probably it was a bug on nautilus (since is the same version of VLC).







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          Open the terminal:



          sudo nano /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop


          After Exec= add:



          /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U


          If this doesn't work, try just with /usr/bin/vlc. Last resort you could use the following line:



          xterm -e "vlc"


          But I assume you want to avoid terminal dependency.






          share|improve this answer


























          • Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

            – Pablo Bianchi
            Apr 8 '17 at 17:35






          • 1





            Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

            – user633551
            Apr 8 '17 at 17:47



















          1














          I had a very similar issue - doubleclicking a file did not seem to do anything but when running VLC from command line I was able to play videos. The VLC GUI was missing though.



          Because Pablo Bianchi suggested doing killall nautilus, I ran nautilus from command line. That showed me that when I doubleclicked a video, VLC displayed errors I could not see without the command line. I then googled them and stumbled upon this thread.



          For me, installing QT4 fixed the problem. Apparently it was an issue with the VLC GUI, not Nautilus.






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          • Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

            – Chai T. Rex
            Feb 11 '18 at 1:41











          • I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

            – Konzertheld
            Feb 11 '18 at 12:57













          • There's no qt4 package.

            – Chai T. Rex
            Feb 12 '18 at 4:23











          • I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

            – Pablo Bianchi
            Feb 12 '18 at 4:35











          • @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

            – Konzertheld
            Feb 12 '18 at 15:49



















          0














          Had same problem. This worked for me:




          1. Open VLC > Tools > Preferences > "Show all" settings

          2. Scroll to Interface> Main Interface

          3. Uncheck qt4 interface

          4. Save


          screenshot



          All worked OK then.






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            Open the terminal:



            sudo nano /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop


            After Exec= add:



            /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U


            If this doesn't work, try just with /usr/bin/vlc. Last resort you could use the following line:



            xterm -e "vlc"


            But I assume you want to avoid terminal dependency.






            share|improve this answer


























            • Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:35






            • 1





              Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

              – user633551
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:47
















            1














            Open the terminal:



            sudo nano /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop


            After Exec= add:



            /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U


            If this doesn't work, try just with /usr/bin/vlc. Last resort you could use the following line:



            xterm -e "vlc"


            But I assume you want to avoid terminal dependency.






            share|improve this answer


























            • Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:35






            • 1





              Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

              – user633551
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:47














            1












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            Open the terminal:



            sudo nano /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop


            After Exec= add:



            /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U


            If this doesn't work, try just with /usr/bin/vlc. Last resort you could use the following line:



            xterm -e "vlc"


            But I assume you want to avoid terminal dependency.






            share|improve this answer















            Open the terminal:



            sudo nano /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop


            After Exec= add:



            /usr/bin/vlc --started-from-file %U


            If this doesn't work, try just with /usr/bin/vlc. Last resort you could use the following line:



            xterm -e "vlc"


            But I assume you want to avoid terminal dependency.







            share|improve this answer














            share|improve this answer



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            edited Apr 8 '17 at 17:50

























            answered Apr 8 '17 at 17:23









            user633551user633551

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            • Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:35






            • 1





              Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

              – user633551
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:47



















            • Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:35






            • 1





              Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

              – user633551
              Apr 8 '17 at 17:47

















            Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

            – Pablo Bianchi
            Apr 8 '17 at 17:35





            Doesn't work. file already have "--star..". Both other options didn't work. gnome-open filename from terminal also works fine. Maybe is more a nautilus problem.

            – Pablo Bianchi
            Apr 8 '17 at 17:35




            1




            1





            Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

            – user633551
            Apr 8 '17 at 17:47





            Exec=xterm -e "vlc" or Exec=gnome-terminal -e "vlc"in /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop should work regardless. But yeah, seems to be a bug

            – user633551
            Apr 8 '17 at 17:47













            1














            I had a very similar issue - doubleclicking a file did not seem to do anything but when running VLC from command line I was able to play videos. The VLC GUI was missing though.



            Because Pablo Bianchi suggested doing killall nautilus, I ran nautilus from command line. That showed me that when I doubleclicked a video, VLC displayed errors I could not see without the command line. I then googled them and stumbled upon this thread.



            For me, installing QT4 fixed the problem. Apparently it was an issue with the VLC GUI, not Nautilus.






            share|improve this answer


























            • Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 11 '18 at 1:41











            • I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 11 '18 at 12:57













            • There's no qt4 package.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:23











            • I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:35











            • @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 12 '18 at 15:49
















            1














            I had a very similar issue - doubleclicking a file did not seem to do anything but when running VLC from command line I was able to play videos. The VLC GUI was missing though.



            Because Pablo Bianchi suggested doing killall nautilus, I ran nautilus from command line. That showed me that when I doubleclicked a video, VLC displayed errors I could not see without the command line. I then googled them and stumbled upon this thread.



            For me, installing QT4 fixed the problem. Apparently it was an issue with the VLC GUI, not Nautilus.






            share|improve this answer


























            • Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 11 '18 at 1:41











            • I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 11 '18 at 12:57













            • There's no qt4 package.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:23











            • I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:35











            • @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 12 '18 at 15:49














            1












            1








            1







            I had a very similar issue - doubleclicking a file did not seem to do anything but when running VLC from command line I was able to play videos. The VLC GUI was missing though.



            Because Pablo Bianchi suggested doing killall nautilus, I ran nautilus from command line. That showed me that when I doubleclicked a video, VLC displayed errors I could not see without the command line. I then googled them and stumbled upon this thread.



            For me, installing QT4 fixed the problem. Apparently it was an issue with the VLC GUI, not Nautilus.






            share|improve this answer















            I had a very similar issue - doubleclicking a file did not seem to do anything but when running VLC from command line I was able to play videos. The VLC GUI was missing though.



            Because Pablo Bianchi suggested doing killall nautilus, I ran nautilus from command line. That showed me that when I doubleclicked a video, VLC displayed errors I could not see without the command line. I then googled them and stumbled upon this thread.



            For me, installing QT4 fixed the problem. Apparently it was an issue with the VLC GUI, not Nautilus.







            share|improve this answer














            share|improve this answer



            share|improve this answer








            edited Jan 24 at 4:47









            Pablo Bianchi

            2,6151532




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            answered Feb 10 '18 at 22:41









            KonzertheldKonzertheld

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            • Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 11 '18 at 1:41











            • I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 11 '18 at 12:57













            • There's no qt4 package.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:23











            • I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:35











            • @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 12 '18 at 15:49



















            • Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 11 '18 at 1:41











            • I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 11 '18 at 12:57













            • There's no qt4 package.

              – Chai T. Rex
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:23











            • I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

              – Pablo Bianchi
              Feb 12 '18 at 4:35











            • @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

              – Konzertheld
              Feb 12 '18 at 15:49

















            Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

            – Chai T. Rex
            Feb 11 '18 at 1:41





            Please add the details of how to install Qt 4.

            – Chai T. Rex
            Feb 11 '18 at 1:41













            I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

            – Konzertheld
            Feb 11 '18 at 12:57







            I'm on Antergos, so I just did pacman -S qt4. Pretty sure on Ubuntu you can also apt install qt4. Apparently qt5 was installed but VLC is not compatible.

            – Konzertheld
            Feb 11 '18 at 12:57















            There's no qt4 package.

            – Chai T. Rex
            Feb 12 '18 at 4:23





            There's no qt4 package.

            – Chai T. Rex
            Feb 12 '18 at 4:23













            I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

            – Pablo Bianchi
            Feb 12 '18 at 4:35





            I updated the question. I don't have any qt4-* package installed.

            – Pablo Bianchi
            Feb 12 '18 at 4:35













            @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

            – Konzertheld
            Feb 12 '18 at 15:49





            @ChaiT.Rex There are several qt4 packages in Ubuntu. packages.ubuntu.com/…

            – Konzertheld
            Feb 12 '18 at 15:49











            0














            Had same problem. This worked for me:




            1. Open VLC > Tools > Preferences > "Show all" settings

            2. Scroll to Interface> Main Interface

            3. Uncheck qt4 interface

            4. Save


            screenshot



            All worked OK then.






            share|improve this answer






























              0














              Had same problem. This worked for me:




              1. Open VLC > Tools > Preferences > "Show all" settings

              2. Scroll to Interface> Main Interface

              3. Uncheck qt4 interface

              4. Save


              screenshot



              All worked OK then.






              share|improve this answer




























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                Had same problem. This worked for me:




                1. Open VLC > Tools > Preferences > "Show all" settings

                2. Scroll to Interface> Main Interface

                3. Uncheck qt4 interface

                4. Save


                screenshot



                All worked OK then.






                share|improve this answer















                Had same problem. This worked for me:




                1. Open VLC > Tools > Preferences > "Show all" settings

                2. Scroll to Interface> Main Interface

                3. Uncheck qt4 interface

                4. Save


                screenshot



                All worked OK then.







                share|improve this answer














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