Thanks for checking, Chris. It now appears that I somehow wound up with a
configuration error: deleting the '~/.config/vlc' folder and reopening VLC
seems to have cured my issue. I'll close this bug; again thank you for your
time. Glenn
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:55 PM Chris Guiver wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> I've experienced it before (but not recently excluding unrelated LXQt
> issues), and in my case as I recall it was because of a change like
> changing monitors (to lower resolution, or change in orientation, or
> after disconnecting external monitor) that I saw as the cause; reversed
> change briefly (ie. move window position) so issue was fixed (closed;
> re-opened program so it & ignored it (it didn't occur again).
>
> I've tried briefly to re-create it (Lubuntu 18.04), but was unable to.
>
> I was able to drag `vlc` to a position where it was partially off-
> screen, closed it, then when it was re-opened, the window opened in the
> exact same position it was last time (ie. partially off-screen). It's
> possible something like this that @Glenn has done (maybe with screen
> orientation, whilst extra external display was connected, or a bad
> mouse-movement, then the program was just closed with Alt-F4 or close
> from panel etc. and it's re-opening to its last position).
>
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> Title:
> VLC window left edge off of screen, cannot move
>
> Status in vlc package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Lubuntu 18.04 64-bit & current updates, VLC version
> 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1
>
> Has consistently occurred for quite a while now; I was waiting to see
> if a fix was coming out.
>
> Upon opening VLC whether from command-line or menu, the window opens
> at the upper-left edge of my screen with the left 1/4-inch of the
> window off the left side of the screen. This does not occur with other
> applications, or the 32-bit version of VLC in Lubuntu 18.04 on a
> different computer.
>
> VLC window that is partiallt off the screen cannot be moved to the
> right or down, but can be maximized & minimized.
>
> This may be an issue on Lubuntu only.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: vlc 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-66.75-generic 4.15.18
> Uname: Linux 4.15.0-66-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.7
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: LXDE
> Date: Fri Oct 25 19:19:02 2019
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-22 (398 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20180725)
> ProcEnviron:
>LANGUAGE=en_US
>PATH=(custom, no user)
>XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
>LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: vlc
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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** Changed in: vlc (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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