Running Ubuntu 22.04:
I’ve tried searching for a solution to this, but there’s way too many false positives. I know you can enable/disable using a single instance in two places, but that’s not my issue. If I open a video the first time, VLC works fine. If I have both the “only use one instance” off, I can click on other videos and they run too. But if I have any combination of those boxes checked I can only play the first video, and to play a new video I have to manually close the VLC player.
What I want to happen is to have one player spawn, but any new video will run in that player, overriding the existing video. Is that just not possible? I don’t want to have to close the window every time I run something new, and I don’t want to have to go back and lose a whole bunch of separate VLC instances when I’m done.
That’s how it’s supposed to work, so we’re gonna need a lot more information about your environment. Logs would help too.
Try Haruna or Celluloid
So you’re trying to only get it to behave one way with one type of file, but different ways with other types of files? Not sure if I’m reading that right.
