Re: 4 Non-critical, but annoying issues regarding xmms, kernel 2.4, dselect and gdm.
On Friday 19 January 2001 16:26, Jeff Hornsberger wrote:
> Hey. Well, you know things are good when you are getting pissed off with
> the problems I outline below, but hey, here it goes:
>
> 1) This is the most annoying problem. I just installed the 2.4 kernel,
> but this issue was present before and since that. I'm using fully
> updated unstable debian with debian gnome, not helix. About half to a
> quarter of the times that I (or another user) logs out of gnome, gdm
> does not return. I just get a blank, grey root x screen staring back at
> me. I have to kill the x server (ctrl-alt-backspace) and then
> /etc/init.d/gdm restart to get things back to normal. Anybody else have
> this problem? Know of a solution?
>
Get rid of the silly managers - I just wound up with kdm, and it drives me
nutz! Console rulez
> 2) This is the second most annoying thing and has only shown itself
> since installing the 2.4 kernel (although I'm not sure how they're
> related). When xmms reaches the end of a song, it just replays the song
> rather than skipping to the next song. If you hit the skip button it
> goes on to the next song. This happens in both shuffle and regular
> playing mode. Again, anybody else have this problem? Know of a fix?
>
Perhaps uncheck the REPeat button?
> 3) In dselect when I go to upgrade things it says I have 1 pakcage that
> is not being upgraded, but I can't figure out which one. How can I
> figure out which package is not being upgraded? I have searched through
> the list in dselect, but can't find it. Anyone?
>
dselect isn't friendly is it! It does seem to have kind of an online manual.
After you fire up dselect, just go to the SELECT menu, and when the text
screen pops up, press 'enter' and it will give you the options ('i' is what
you will want. I kinda need to do that too, the man page didn't do much!
> 4) I use Sawfish window manager and when I am using xmms with the
> playlist (docked or not) and I try to minimize xmms, it only minimizes
> the player window and not the playlist. The playlist used to minimize
> with xmms since it can't be minimized by itself. Anybody else have this
> problem? Know of a solution?
perhaps just close the playlist? Whenever I wanna hear tunes, I just use the
UP_ARROW (load files menu) and point it to my 2.5gb of tunes, hold shift key
down, select first tune, scroll down to last tune, repeat and it selects them
all and hit the 'ok' button. it delays for several seconds as it digests the
tunage and begins playing.
>
> Thanks for any help. -Jeff
HTH. tatah
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