Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Michael M. Moore wrote: > >> I haven't used xmms in years, but IIRC it is a GTK1 app, correct? > > I don't think so. In earlier versions of Slackware, such as -11.0, it > worked just fine with GTK2.
Worked? As in, it ran? Or it looked fine? Font handling has changed a lot in Linux over the years, much for the better IMO. The type of font-handling infrastructure that GTK1 apps use has probably been modified. As I understand it, anyway, this is why the GTK1 apps still around look crappy without some kind of fiddling. I'm pretty sure xmms is a GTK1 app, but the xmms website seems to be mostly gone. There's no reason why GTK1 apps wouldn't run even though most of your apps are GTK2 or QT3 or 4. GTK1 and GTK2 aren't mutually exclusive. The former, though, aren't equipped to make use of the same resources that the latter are. >> Do you use other GTK1 apps and have no problems with fonts? > > I don't know that I have any GTK1 apps. Exactly. There's a reason for that. >> Personally, if you're wedded to the WinAmp-style audio player, I would >> spend more time figuring out what's wrong with Audacious, because it's >> much nicer than xmms. Unless, I guess, you're already wanting to use >> other GTK1 apps and need to get it sorted system-wide. I was under the >> impression that most of them that haven't gone by the wayside probably >> will eventually. > > When I look at the audacious site I see that it's based on xmms. Appears > to me that they're all related somehow. Yes, that's why I said "WinAmp-style." Xmms was based on WinAmp, Beep Media Player was a GTK2 fork of xmms, and Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player, which is no longer developed (not the classic version, anyway). > Frankly, I could not care less what I used. The two that are installed > here don't work: one no longer properly displays the play list and the other > segfaults when I try to invoke it. Feh! Linux doesn't lack for audio players. If you just want something simple, there are good cli players like cplay, Cmus, or MOC (Music on Console). I used cplay for a while and really liked it. Now I use quodlibet because the excellent tagger saves me time and typing (I use the plugin that auto-tags files from the Musicbrainz.org database) and I like the interface. But it's more of a music player/manager combo, so it may be more than you want. Unlike Rhythmbox, it doesn't require vast chunks of GNOME; and unlike Banshee, it doesn't require mono. However, it does require Gstreamer, which you also may not want. JJJ already mentioned some other players, and you could always use mplayer along with something like FAPG (Fast Audio Playlist Generator). (That's presuming you already have mplayer installed.) Michael M. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
