There have been a lot of reports of X weirdness with the Intel drivers and the 4.6 kernel lately.
Perhaps this has nothing to do with vlc, but is merely a good way to trip the intel driver problem. Here's a report I sent in: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97074 And some other intel weirdness: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QJFPJ72BZBUKG6RLCPD3W647XIHQV2L6/
