vlc & mplayer lost window borders and controls

[icemaca]

Philipp Ost wrote:
> icemaca wrote:
> [...]
>> the packages work fine, which is ver 0.8.x something i think for vlc, 
>> but updating to 0.9.x in ports produced this problem and i am not 
>> sure if it is something in the config options or other missing depends.
> [...]
>
> The vlc folks switched to a Qt-based interface. There's an option to 
> build it or not (--> make config); work's fine here (apart from the 
> fact that I now have a near complete installation of Qt-4 floating 
> around on my disk... for one program -- OK, this is way off topic 
> here, I know).
>
> HTH,
> Philipp
>
oh.
i tried that before but have removed kde completely now.

back to the drawing board then. still baffled why mplayer too

thanks