How To Change The Ugly Vlc Icon

On eve of Christmas, VLC Media Histrion dresses up its cone with Santa hat, this hat stays on VLC cone till Jan 1st, if you don't want to come across Christmas hat in VLC role player, yous tin hands disable information technology on Windows and Mac, hither is how that can be done.

For every twelvemonth, in the month of December, starting from 18th to January 1st, organisation tray and cone icons of VLC player wears a Santa hat, this happens automatically during the holiday season and is indeed is an Easter egg embedded into the player by the developers.

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Disabling Santa hat icon in VLC Player

I have no objections or bug with this, simply if y'all want to become the VLC icon back without Santa or Christmas hat, here is how to practice that.

On Windows:

ane. Open VLC Thespian,

2. Click on Tools and select 'Preferences'

3. At present at the lesser of the window select "All" nether 'Show settings'

4. Select Interface > expand Main interfaces, select 'Qt'

5. Curl downwardly in the right pane and remove tick marker for "Allow automatic icon changes",

6. Click 'Save', and close the player.

Now if yous reopen VLC Player, yous will meet the regular cone and tray icons.

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On Mac

Tools > Preferences > Interface > Principal interfaces> Mac Os X > uncheck " allow icon to be inverse",
Restart the Player.

Delight note that, I no way trying to disturb the Christmas Spirit of you, you can go on the Santa hat icon or remove information technology, its' up to you. This article was written to let you know there is a way exists to go the regular VLC icon back in the identify of Santa hat during these holidays.

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I take this every bit an opportunity to say "Happy Xmas" to all readers in advance. Please stay on the topic, don't post spam comments with Xmas wishes.