On Saturday, March 11, 2006, 4:14:09 PM, Ronald J. Hall wrote: RJH> On Saturday 11 March 2006 05:12 pm, rikona wrote:
>> That's what I thought. >> >> Thanks much for the reply. Any ideas much appreciated.... RJH> How about this, launch xmms from a shell (you may have to be RJH> root. Its odd but while I can run XMMS from a menu or icon as RJH> user, I can't launch it from a shell. Not sure why), something RJH> like: RJH> /usr/bin/xmms --play <name of MP3 song> I JUST saw the message from Ben about 'soundwrapper' that fixed the icon launch of xmms, before I got your email. Seeing your note, I tried xmms from the CLI, but without the --play <name of MP3 song>. [Songs are stored in an obscure storage area, with a very loooong address to get there. Took the lazy way. :-)] It popped up OK and was able to play an mp3 on a playlist. RJH> See if it gives you some error messages that might clue you in? Interestingly, it gave me TWO Konsole pages of errors, including many 'CRITICAL' ones. But it still played. I'd say it has rather good error recovery. :-) Really appreciate the help...... -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
