Thanks Martin. I will try that. What I entered in the application menu
originally was: /sw/bin/xmms. Should I be saying "source /sw/bin/init.sh;
<name of the executable program>" for every application in the menu?
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On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
> > I have a weird problem. How come XMMS will play audio fine if I use XMMS
> > command via X11's Terminal (using bash)? If I add XMMS to my X11's menu,
> > then it can't play due to "Couldn't open audio... Please check that: ..."
> > I use eSound Output Plugin v1.2.7 [libesdout.so] for output plugin. Why is
> > that?
>
> Are you sure that it gets a reasonable environment? If you start X11.app
> by clicking and don't do anything else, the programs run from X11's
> Applications menu inherit a PATH environment variable that is unusably
> short. Put
>
> source /sw/bin/init.sh; xmms
>
> into the command line box of the Application menu.
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