You shouldn't be running VLC as a privileged user period. Perhaps configure VLC to drop root privs on startup :)
If you're smart enough to run everything as root you should be smart enough to figure out how to do that. This is otherwise unsupported. -- vlc does not run as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs