View source for Skins

Skin support for VLC is now mature and there are some wonderful skins. You may like to use them rather than the default interface.  

== Using a skin ==
=== Download ===
First, go to the [http://videolan.org/vlc/download-skins2.html Skin page], choose a skin and download it.

In addition to the skins listed below, VLC supports all the Winamp2 and XMMS skins (.wsz files).

=== Run this skin ===
Now run vlc -I skins2 (or launch VLC skins if you've got a shortcut to it). VLC opens with its default skin. 
Hit Ctrl-S and choose the .vlt file. VLC has now a new default skin!

If you want to run the skin initially on startup of VLC after setting your default skin, there are 2 	possibilities:

1) right click on your shortcut, click Properties, go to the Shortcut tab and replace the target with         this: "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -I skins2

2) start VLC, open menu "preferences" and choose "interfaces" then "main interfaces". Change the setting "Interface module" to '''Skinnable Interface'''. Thats it!

*This will increase memory usage, but will also simply getting to your favorite skin.

=== Auto-detection ===
If you want to have it automatically detected, place it in the skins subfolder of your VLC installation:
* Windows users: Put it in '''C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\skins\'''
* Linux users: Put it in '''~/.vlc/skins2/'''

== Create a skin ==
[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html Create a new skin] documentation.

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