Public bug reported:
Hi All,
I've been trying to get skins to work for quite some time with minimal
luck. I have the same bug to report in several ways:
1. When you try to just install a skin from your desktop it never works.
I ran vlc from prompt using vlc -I skins2
the default skins2 comes up, I right click, go to interface->select
skin->open skin
I go to my desktop and select the skin I want (I've tried several all
coming from the vlc website). it spits out this error:
[00000001] main libvlc debug: translation test: code is "C"
[00000405] skins2 interface: skin: VLC 0.8.5 Default Skin author: aLtgLasS
[00000477] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : failed to load external
entity "skin.dtd"
[00000477] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 2) : Validation failed: no DTD
found !
[00000405] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /tmp/vltEE8UtL/theme.xml
[00000405] skins2 interface error: error while parsing /tmp/vltEE8UtL/theme.xml
[00000480] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Document is empty
[00000405] skins2 interface error: failed to parse
/home/uaer/Desktop/dark melody.vlt
I know that the instructions say to put the file in ~/.share/vlc/skins2
I don't have that folder at all, I don't even have a .share folder, I
have a .local/share folder which has vlc but does not have skins2 folder
within it. I browsed online a bit and someone said put the file in
/usr/share/vlc/skins2
I did this, now when I do
vlc -I skins2 I can right click, go to interface, select skin, and the
file is right there, I don't need to go to open skin but it spits out
this error when I try to run it:
[00000483] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : failed to load
external entity "skin.dtd"
[00000483] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 2) : Validation failed: no DTD
found !
[00000405] skins2 interface error: failed to parse /tmp/vltKzWNHW/theme.xml
[00000405] skins2 interface error: error while parsing /tmp/vltKzWNHW/theme.xml
[00000486] xml xml error: XML parser error (line 1) : Document is empty
[00000405] skins2 interface error: failed to parse
/usr/share/vlc/skins2/Blissta.vlt
Now what I've tried to do to solve the problem:
1. Removed vlc completely, tried reinstalling
2. Remove vlc and all configuration files (/home/user/.local/share/vlc &
/home/user/.config/vlc) then reinstalled
3. Removed the /usr/share/vlc and then reinstalled
none of these had any effect. I know a lot of people have problems
getting the skins to work properly. It would be nice if we could just
download the file to desktop, run the command vlc -I skins2, select the
desktop file and it would be copied to the right destination and then
work from that point on. I love the player and this is a minor bug but
none the less, it would be nice to have a nice looking skin :)
Thanks for the hard work, it's really appreciated
** Affects: vlc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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skins will not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322043
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