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 :-) ? > > 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 It has finally happened again. You're right, xmms was positioning the windows outside of the visible screen area. I run a 1024x768 screen. The following were in .xmms/config player_x=1077 player_y=0 ... playlist_x=328 playlist_y=0 ... equalizer_x=1077 equalizer_y=116 The effect was that the playlist came up on the screen, but the player and equilizers did not. Resetting player_x and equilizer_x to 0 caused them to appear in the upper left hand corner of the screen. I suppose the next question is how to stop this from happening at all. I think it's triggered by me being in a different virtual screen than the one on which xmms is sitting when I log out and then shut down, but I can't recreate it reliably yet. -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications
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