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I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and the 3.0.8 Vetinari VLC Media Player. When I have a video already playing and I double-click on another video, another VLC window opens. I find this totally unnecessary. Is there a way to prevent this? I want VLC to use just one window when I open another video.

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VLC (v 3.0.8) Tools , Preferences, tick All, type instance, click playlist, tick allow only one running instance.

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  • I have this problem in linux but can't solve it this way. And I tried killall vlc and pkill -9 vlc that works! but sometimes not working!
    – mo1ein
    Commented Aug 23, 2021 at 22:36
  • just guessing, but try them sudo
    – pierrely
    Commented Aug 24, 2021 at 10:49
  • Not depends on sudo. I can't find an exact way to solve this problem.
    – mo1ein
    Commented Aug 26, 2021 at 17:38
  • "show settings: All" radio button on left bottom corner
    – lfmunoz
    Commented Dec 25, 2021 at 8:01
  • also I can use killall -9 vlc
    – pierrely
    Commented Mar 9, 2022 at 3:47

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