Hide the VLC cone icon in the browser-plugin-vlc for Linux

The next instructions describes how to proceed to hide the VLC cone icon in the VLC plugin for Web browsers. I think this tip can be useful for another ninjas in so far as there is not a lot of information on Internet which describes this. Instructions are based on the Debian way and use the Debian/DPKG tools but I guess that the example is far enough explicit to be extrapolated to other environments.

Requirements:

• You need to install all the build-dependences for the browser-plugin-vlc before executedpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

Steps:

• apt-get source browser-plugin-vlc
• cd npapi-vlc-2.0.0/
• edit npapi/vlcplugin_gtk.cp and replace the code as follows:

  --- npapi-vlc-2.0.0.orig/npapi/vlcplugin_gtk.cpp
  +++ npapi-vlc-2.0.0/npapi/vlcplugin_gtk.cpp
  @@ -46,12 +46,13 @@ VlcPluginGtk::VlcPluginGtk(NPP instance,
       vol_slider_timeout_id(0)
   {
       memset(&video_xwindow, 0, sizeof(Window));
  -    GtkIconTheme *icon_theme = gtk_icon_theme_get_default();
  -    cone_icon = gdk_pixbuf_copy(gtk_icon_theme_load_icon(
  -                    icon_theme, "vlc", 128, GTK_ICON_LOOKUP_FORCE_SIZE, NULL));
  -    if (!cone_icon) {
  -        fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: could not load VLC icon\n");
  -    }
  +    cone_icon = NULL;
   }
   
   VlcPluginGtk::~VlcPluginGtk()
  

• dpkg-source --commit .
  
• dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

  Maybe you need to install the following packages:
  $sudo apt-get install firefox-dev
  $sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf
  

• cd ../
• ls browser-plugin-vlc_2.0.0-2_amd64.deb

Installation:

• dpkg -i browser-plugin-vlc_2.0.0-2_amd64.deb

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