Remove Santa Hat in VLC Player Permanently

To remove the Santa hat icon in VLC Player, you can follow these steps:

1. Open VLC Player and go to the "View" menu.
2. Click on "Visualizations" and then choose "None" from the list of visualizations.
3. The Santa hat icon should now be removed from the player.

Note that this will only remove the Santa hat icon for the current VLC Player session. If you want to permanently remove the Santa hat icon, you will need to disable the visualization module in VLC Player.

To disable the visualization module in VLC Player, follow these steps:

1. Open VLC Player and go to the "Tools" menu.
2. Click on "Preferences" and then click on the "All" radio button in the bottom left corner of the window.
3. In the search box at the top of the window, type "visualization" and press Enter.
4. You should see a list of options related to visualizations.
5. Uncheck the option for "Load the visualization module at startup" and then click on the "Save" button.

This will disable the visualization module in VLC Player and the Santa hat icon should not appear when you play a video. Note that this may also disable other visualizations in VLC Player.