Sorry, I don't know of any other way to automatically start a process with 
a given priority other than ``nice -n 10 xmms''.

>  As a last solution, I'd cron a script as root to renice automatically,
> but I can't obtain a list of the xmms processes (' ps -A | grep xmms |
> awk "{print $1}" ' gives the whole line, same with 'cut -f1  -d" "'

The program ``pidof'' could help you in getting the list of xmms-processes:
$ pidof xmms
24664 24663 24660 24656 24655 24654
$

Cheers,
  Johannes

-- 
"More than machinery we need humanity" -- Charlie Chaplin, The Great 
Dictator

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