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Re: xmms did a disappearing act



Well, you can edit your ~/.xmms/config file, and delete the two lines
that say "player_x" and "player_y" and see if that helps.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:47:01PM -0500, Matthew Garman wrote:
> 
> I'm running a self-compiled gnome/sawfish setup.  I also have a
> self-compiled xmms installed on my system.  Anyway, the other day, I
> logged into gnome after a reboot, and I couldn't get xmms to display.  I
> have a quick launch icon for xmms on my toolbar.  When I pressed it, no
> windows appeared that I could see, but my "gnome desktop guide" applet
> showed that xmms was running.  Furthermore, I could click on an any type
> of media file in the file manager, and xmms would play it (mp3s, wav
> files, even mpeg movies).  I even tried 'killall -9 xmms' then tried to
> re-launch xmms---no good.  After explicitly killing xmms, I tried loading
> it from the commandline: same result.
> 
> I logged out of gnome, then logged back in, and I got xmms to display.  So
> I guess everything is okay now, but I'd still like to know what happened
> to xmms.  Especially if it happens again, I'd like to fix it more easily
> than logging out and logging in again.  
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> -- 
> Matt Garman, garman@uiuc.edu
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>  Smile and grin at the change all around, Pick up my guitar and play
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> 
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