On 2018-11-26, Martin <keine-e...@online.de> wrote: > Am 21.11.18 um 02:29 schrieb Gary Dale: >> I'm running Debian/Buster with a Plasma 5 desktop. After I close a VLC >> session, the program continues to lurk in the process list until I send it >> the Kill signal. This is annoying because VLC stops the screen saver / >> session locker from kicking in while it is active so I have to bring up the >> System Activity monitor to check for and kill all the VLC processes. >> >> Note that just ending the process doesn't work. I need to send the Kill >> signal. > > Go to Preferences -> Interface -> Show settings -> All ---> Interface > -> Uncheck 'Run as deamon process'.
I checked that setting, began watching a video, then clicked the upper right-hand 'X' of the latter's graphical window (which I believe is the OP's customary modus operandi). I didn't get any zombie or supernumerary process, though; vlc shutdown cleanly and completely. -- He used sentences differently from any other prose writer. He always sounded like a slightly drunk man who is very melancholy, who has no illusions about life, who is very strong but whose strength is entirely unnecessary. --Krasznahorkai on Krúdy
