If you don't use xmms-arts, then what might happen is that xmms will lock the sound, and so kde won't be able to output anything until you quit xmms. This is sort of annoying if you have something like an ICQ running and you want to be able to hear message notifications while playing music.
I emerged xmms-arts and it worked okay, so I think you may as well try it. But another issue... why is noatun buggy for you? It works pretty well for me. It crashed on occasion while I was using the slicker style, but after changing to dotNET it's been fine. Another KDE alternative is Juk, except I couldn't figure out how to arrange songs within a playlist in that thing... Wes On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, daniel wrote: > i checked out /usr/portage/profiles/packages.mask and it says that > "media-plugins/xmms-arts" is "permamasked and will be removed from portage at > some point since unmaintained usptream" > > what does that mean? and is there something else that will allow me to listen > with xmms in kde or am i forced to use noatun now (can't stand that thing, so > buggy). > > -- > every country has the government it deserves. > - joseph de maistre > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
