On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > The symptom: > I run xmms (either from the command line or my gnome taskbar) and > nothing happens. > I run ps -auwx and i can see 4 or so instances of xmms running. > I notice that the xmms gnome-applet has changed it's face (as it does > when xmms is running) from a logo to the play, pause, etc. buttons. > I click on play, and music starts coming out of my headphones. > I can also run xmms-shell and connect to xmms, manipulate the playlist, > play, pause, etc. > > Basically, xmms is running, and all other programs that interact with > xmms work, but I don't see the windows.
Have you changed screen resolution lately (= played with
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :-) ?
I can think of 2 reasons - one, both or none may apply to your case:
- xmms simply doesn't open the window. yep. The window is actually
optional... Try firing up xmms-shell (you listed it as installed in
the bit I snipped below):
xmms-shell> window main show
to force it open
- the main window may be positioned outside the visible screen area -
extremely annoying. (I suspect that since xmms does it's own window
management, the window manage cannot help much here)
The window position should be in ~/.xmms/config - search for player_x
and player_y - setting both to zero should put xmms in the top-left
corner. (Be sure to shut down xmms before writing the file). xmms
should read it upon startup
[...]
> This happened today, and two days ago, but not yesterday. Logging out
> and logging back in did not help, nor did restarting enlightenment. I
> havn't tried rebooting.
I hope that you didn't use xmms yesterday - otherwise it seems rather
inconsistent...
A reboot would be unlikely to solve this anyway - rebooting is something
people on other OS's do.
> I have only recently started using xmms (at work) because I only
> recently got a sound card. But it seemed to be working for a while
> there.
>
> I run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade almost daily.
>
> I tried downgrading xmms from 1.2.7-1.1 to 1.2.7-1, but nothing changed.
>
> When I run xmms from the command line, I get the following output:
> libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> libvorbisfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Neither of these packages seem like they would be needed for xmms.
[...]
Sounds like one of the plug-ins: I got rid of it my disabling the mikmod
player in the xmms preferences. I never found out what that mikmod
thingie was...
But wrt libvorbisfile.so.0 : why not install vorbis-tools (or just
libvorbis0) - then you can play your favourite oggs in xmms instead of
running the risk of suffering from mp3 patent problems?
HTH
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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