VLC Media Player Effects and Filters Not Showing Up

You just installed VLC media player, played a DVD using VLC, and you wanted to adjust the color. You then clicked Tools, then Effects and Filters. Surprised? The Effect and Filters window did not show up.

Where is it? If you positioned the VLC main window at the upper-left corner of the monitor, the Effect and Filters window is actually unreachable—it is at the left side of the VLC main window. If only you could reach it with your hand. . .

Position the main window at the right side of the screen. Click Tools > Effects and Filters; you may need to click this option twice—to close and reopen the Effects and Filters window—and there it is!

Ever thought of buying a wider monitor?

Lucid Lynx Inside Windows XP

Four months ago my hard disk died—it had three partitions. COD—head crash—a term used when the read-write head scratches on the surface of the hard disk, thereby causing hard disk failure.



I was not able to boot Windows XP. Fortunately, I had Ubuntu - Hardy Heron installed in a different partition inside Windows and I was able to access and copy all my XP files to an external hard drive. This Ubuntu had been there sitting unused, never crossed my mind that one day it would be of service.

So I bought a new 500GB hard drive and installed Windows XP; and then installed Lucid Lynx Ubuntu on an 80GB external hard drive.

This time I want to get serious on Ubuntu—I want to see how to configure it and how to install software on it. From now on, I will document my Ubuntu experience by posting them on this blog.