Re: XMMS only runs under KDE

[Alvin Smith <email@alvinsmith.com>]

On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:42 pm, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 08:17 -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
> > I am running Sid.
> >
> > XMMS runs fine under KDE, but does not even start under Gnome as a
> > regular user.  If I try to start it from a console window, it just exits
> > immediately without any output at all.  But, if I run it as root, it runs
> > under Gnome.
> >
> > How do I troubleshoot this issue?
>
> dont know about troubleshooting, but try:
>
> # aptitude install beep-media-player
>
> its a gtk2 version of xmms.

Same results!  Runs under root, but not under normal user... Well, not quite!  
I created a new user who has no problem running either application.  So, the 
corruption is not in .xmms, but in some other configuration directory or 
file.  

Does this make any sense?

-- 
Alvin Smith