On eve of Christmas VLC Media Player dresses up its cone with Santa hat, this hat stays on VLC cone till January 1st if you don’t want to see Christmas hat in VLC player, you can easily disable it on Windows and Mac. For every year, in the month of December from 18th to January 1st system tray and cone icons of VLC player wears Santa hat, this happens automatically during the holiday season and is indeed is an Easter egg embedded into the player by developers.
Disabling Santa hat icon in VLC Player
I have no objections or problems with this, but if you want to get VLC icon back without Santa or Christmas hat here is how to do that.
On Windows:
1. Open VLC Player,
2. From Tools menu select Preferences, select “all” under Show settings
3. Select Interface>expand Main interfaces select Qt
4. Scroll down on right pane and remove tick mark for “allow automatic icon changes”,
5. Click Save and restart the player to see the changes.
Now if you open VLC Media Player you will see regular cone and tray icons.
On Mac
- Tools>Preferences>Interface>Main interfaces> Mac OS X > uncheck “ allow icon to be changed”,
- Restart the Player.
Please note that I no way trying to disturb the Christmas Spirit of you, you can keep the Santa hat icon or remove it, its’ up to you. This article was written to let you know there is a way exists to get regular VLC icon back in place of Santa hat during these holidays.
I take this as opportunity to say “Happy Xmas” to all readers in advance. Please stay on the topic, don’t post spam comments with Xmas wishes.
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Thank you for this. I am not a christian so I don’t participate in xmas and the icon was irritating and intrusive. This is the first site I found (out of many) that had the simple, direct solution.
Thanks for your words and welcome to Techdows.
Santa is not a christian figure. He was created by Coca cola in an advertising as a parody of st nicolas and was kept because he looked better.
Actually Santa is an off shot of the Christian figure “Sinterklaas”. The Dutch brought over Sinterklaas “St Nick” and santa eveolved from there. CocaCola had absolutely nothing to do with creating Santa, other than the fact that they used his likeness during a brilliant ads to make money.
I’m not a christian either, but I’m also not so wound up that a funny little hat on an icon is upsetting to me. So strange, the things that people classify as irritating.
Same here, I get its the holidays and all but its being shoved down my throat left and right.
Thanks much from a rational thinking and common sense atheist.
Perfect it works! Thank you.
wonderful! glad to get rid at last of that silly icon!
Thanks!
I hated that little coca-cola commercial in my dock.
I’m VERY happy to have learned how to remove this obnoxious infiltration. No doubt it was added in the spirit of cheer and whatnot, but it’s completely inappropriate. And not because of my religious opinions: Christmas is to christianity as Spam is to meat … stray bits of it in there, but mostly a bunch of crap for padding profits. Click, toggle off, back to … a normal traffic cone, because nothing says “time to watch videos” better than construction ahead, or wtf….