On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:43:50PM +0000, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > 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 :-) ? nope... > 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 I think the second is more likely. See previous post. > > [...] > > > 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... exactly my problem -- I did use xmms yesterday. ::sigh:: > A reboot would be unlikely to solve this anyway - rebooting is something > people on other OS's do. hence the not trying it... ;) > > 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... I didn't really suspect those; just put them in for completeness. Excerpted from www.mikmod.org: >>> MikMod is a sound library (libmikmod), as well as a module player >>> originally written by Jean-Paul Mikkers (MikMak). It is able to play the >>> IT, XM, S3M, MTM, 669, STM, ULT, FAR, MED, AMF, DSM, IMF, GDM, STX, OKT >>> and of course MOD module formats. It can also be found on freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/projects/libmikmod/). > 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? no .oggs to play. :( Maybe I'll start asking abcde to rip to .ogg instead of .mp3 one of these days. But can itunes play them? My old workhorse mac is my jukebox at home. And what about car-mounted cd players, or ipods or rios or those neat disc-man-mp3-playing thingies? The realist in me is still going to use mp3 for a while, I'm afraid. Thanks Karl! -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications
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