since upgrade to 12.10 vlc won't start and messes up everything

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

On 09/20/2012 08:28 PM, Tobias k1fri wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> since i upgraded my pc from 12.04 to 12.10 vlc won't start. all i get is
> empty windows constantly popping up with very high cpu
> usage........system is sluggish, windows manager goes crazy, task
> switcher is disabled, launcher is locked, some applications are randomly
> spread to other desktops etc (see screenshots)...........this will go on
> forever until "killall vlc". after that the window manager still behaves
> funny..........i haven't been able to find out what's going on nor have
> i found a bug that would describe my problem.......
>
> what do you think about that?
>
>
I think you are affected by https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1005677

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jibel