mplayer/xfce4 problems

[Olivier Fourdan]

Looks like a bug in mplayer, some kind of race cond or something. In any
case, the WM shouldn't cause the app to crash.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:05, Mark Houlder wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
> 
> >
> > What version of mplayer?  And is it an rpm install or compiled from 
> > source?
> >
> > Both my mplayer installs work fine; an old Toshiba laptop (533 
> > celeron, 128MB ram, S3 graphics) and the production box, Athlon 2000+, 
> > 768 MB RAM, Matrox G550, running XFCE4.
> >
> > I'd start by getting the latest tarball and compiling mplayer for your 
> > system.
> >
> > --Yan
> >
> 1.0_pre3 - it's still the latest available for gentoo (stable), and as 
> it works with fluxbox i'm inclined to believe it's not an issue with 
> mplayer as such. i'm also using Xfree-4.3.99
> 
> one thing i did notice was that if i stopped tpb (on-screen display of 
> thinkpad button displays using xosd) it sometimes worked after that. 
> however i've since stopped using tpb and the problem hasn't gone away
> 
> 
> mark
> 
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