Isn't this line included in the 3rd line of my sources.list?

I thought that line included what

is.

The problem of not having VLC installed is fixed. I updated package info from synaptic, and now I have vlc there again. A bit later I will try to install a VLC skin again, and report it in another post.

Thank you for pointing that.

Yesterday I even searched Debian documentation about sources.list, but I did not find anything totally useful.

And Debian wiki is sadly far away from complete, although its header in

https://www.debian.org/doc/

is

"Debian Wiki, a good source of information for newcomers".

Now, just as irony (probably caused by a different search), I found

https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList?...t=sources.list

which explains more than I previously read.

Problem found: https://wiki.debian.org/Apt (pointed by a link in the sources.list wiki page) shows "Forbidden <p>You are not allowed to access this!</p>".

Same problem for https://wiki.debian.org/Software ! - which is a link in the /doc address.

Before I did not try, but all the links in the lower table of

https://wiki.debian.org/

are "Forbiden" !

Very, very bad...

Back to the original problem: VLC skin. Trying to use the downloaded, as described before... soon I will say something about it.

VLC problem is exactly what I said initially, in this thread.

Saying it again, just to organize this thread.

Following instruction in

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

VLC was executed with this command, safe and good for all users to use, to have it in English:

The preference window I have is:

http://imgbox.com/FEZmWle1

1. Clicking on the "Choose" button does not open a window to find my skin file, as I expected.

2. Putting the full path

/home/me/.local/share/vlc/skins2/baia.vermelha_redcoast.vlt

in that "Skin resource file" field, clicking the "Save" button below, closing VLC, opening it again, does not make the skin be used.

3. VLC version now is 2.2.7-1~deb9u1, the latest available.

Should I submit a bug in VLC? In VLC for Debian? (coarse steps for those are welcome)

referring to you sources.list file: Take the line htat begins with 'deb' and put it above the line that begins with 'deb-src'. Copy the stretch-updates line and remove the 'src' from the beginning of one of those lines. Make every entry end with 'main contrib non-free'

Then, do an 'apt-get update', and 'apt-get -f install'. Then, proceed with fixing the system.

I was seeing the exact same behavior as dedec0, and I narrowed it down to a missing "skins2" module. Under Debian you need the vlc-plugin-skins2 package installed:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-skins2

When it's installed you should see it when you do this from the command-line:

vlc --list | grep skins2

It would be nice if there was some error message to this effect-- vlc let's you switch to skins2 without telling you that you can't. On the Debian side, I might suggest that a dependency would fix this confusion, albeit at the loss of some flexibility.

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This issue was left as is for weeks. Yesterday I played with it again.

vlc-plugin-skins2 - exactly! I installed this package yesterday. Immediately the interface was changed! The 3 skins I downloaded weeks before are there - I just took sometime to discover how to activate them: right click VLC window -> menu "interface" -> menu "select skin"; in Portuguese, what I see, this is: right click VLC window -> menu "interface" (different (!) sound) -> menu "selecionar capa".

Another problem: interface is pruned. Does it have to be? Look:

- The main menu is gone! I does *not* appear with "press and release alt" (like happen in several programs) or anything I tried.

- The window title font color and background (have very low contrast. See an image which shows the VLC and Firefox window titles: imgbox.com/qJhuJcRZ. It looks like window XP window - badly made, since font color is wrong.

- The menus color still black with white background -> exactly what I wanted to change.

I have another program, it uses QT 3, but its interface window has different colors! For example, the menus and text windows are white text in a dark gray background. Worth to note: I am using Mate Desktop here - what does not seem, unfortunately, to be consired by VLC - and not exclusively, other graphical managers too seem to be ignored.

Suggestions? VLC skin work needed, if other skins have different features? Bug?

A related but different question. The skin is fine for my eyes, but:

- I still have to use white bg menu

- I cannot make the VLC skinned window bigger. I can only move it or put a movie in full screen

Are there VLC skins which can be resized, like the VLC "no skin window" is freely?