There have been a lot of reports of X weirdness with the
Intel drivers and the 4.6 kernel lately.
Perhaps this has nothing to do with vlc, but is merely
a good way to trip the intel driver problem.
Here's a report I sent in:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97074
And some other intel weirdness:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.o...