running xmms as user

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sat Mar 26 19:22:56 CET 2005


Hi

That's because of compositing extension (old apps tend to misuse the
ARBG 32 bppex depth)
 
Set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS to 1 and that will prevent the Xlib from
advertising the ARGD depth.

E.g:

(export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 ; xmms)

HTH
Olivier.

On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 17:12 +0000, Mike White wrote:
> When I try to run xmms as a user I get the following message:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   serial 1506 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   serial 1507 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> 
> If I run xmms as root, it runs fine.  Can someone help me here?
> 
> Mike





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