VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root)
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* Running VLC as root is discouraged. *
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 It is potentially dangerous, and might not even work properly.
sh-3.00# vlc
VLC media player 0.8.6 Janus
starting VLC root wrapper... using UID 0 (root)
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* Running VLC as root is discouraged. *
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 It is potentially dangerous, and might not even work properly.

(.:1934): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
You can get a copy from:
        http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases
vlc --help