MPlayer Does Not Start From Desktop

[Harold Aling]

Gerard Seibert wrote:
> FreeBSD-6.2
> Xfce-4.4.0 (Xfce 4.4)
>
> Scenario:
>
> Right Click Desktop
> Click <Multimedia>
> Click <MPlayer>
>
> At that point an error message is displayed:
>
> 	[ws] Shared Memory Extension Error
>
> I can run mplayer fine if I start it from a terminal but not from the
> desktop. I have tried Googling for a solution; however, I have not been
> able to ascertain a viable one.
>   
Did you try to run 'gmplayer' from the command line? If not, please do 
so and report back if gmplayer started successfully...

If gmplayer failed start, it might be a problem within FreeBSD and may 
not have anything to do with Xfce...

-H-