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curmudgeon
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 Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:08 am Post subject: vlc choices |
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When attempting to install vlc, I got the following message:
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configure: error: X11 video outputs need a window provider (Qt4, Skins2, Hildon or xcb-utils), but none were found. Please install xcb-keysyms.
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I assume that enabling (and installing) qt4 would be the "easy" solution, but I am wondering about the other options.
Does anyone have any familiarity with those?
And what the heck is xcb-keysyms? |
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sebaro
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:56 am Post subject: |
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I think you have two options, a CLI with ncurses and a GUI with Qt. The other two are for themes (skins) and mobile (Hildon).
xcb-keysyms is x11-libs/xcb-util-keysyms a dependency of x11-libs/xcb-util. |
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depontius
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The xcb is a set of C bindings to the X Windows server, and all of the xcb-* or libxcb* stuff are pieces and parts of it. There's also a version of libX11 based on top of xcb, and it's both faster and smaller than the "native" libX11. Philosophically, xcb is a great idea, but for some reason it never got a lot of traction - I suspect because by this point everyone is out to replace X11, not fix it.
I have both qt4 and xcb for my installations.
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