How to restore original VLC skin and config on Ubuntu

April 28th, 2009 by aco Leave a reply »

If you have new skin on your vlc player but now you want to change it as a default theme due to some skin problem and lose some configuration options.

You can also find some more things like some skin don’t support drag & drop function.

You don’t need to reinstall again you can do this with some simple steps.

Click on Places and go to home folder in panel.

Click on view in menu bar and click on show hidden files or you can do same thing with (Ctrl + H)

Now open .config folder

Delete vlc folder

Restart / start VLC player in application menu and set up your settings from beginning.

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5 comments

  1. philip says:

    there isnt any vlc or .vlc folder in the home menu, please update

  2. kotesh says:

    wow! this information is very useful to me.I solved my problem.
    thank you!

  3. kotesh says:

    hey,philip see what is there,and do that one,you can get your default skin.ok

  4. Passer_by says:

    Thanks so much, worked like a charm.

  5. Manu says:

    good man….it worked….

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