Comments on: XMMS: Just play music

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:34:50 +0000

xmms can be run by a normal user with the follow command: “XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 xmms” (without quotes). I discovered this via a discussion I had on linuxquestions.org, at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/problems-installing-xmms-on-lenny-764631/ That was mentioned in some bug reports as well, I believe — see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318093#10

Anyway, I have moved onto audacious, and am slowly getting used to it.

By: manu

manu — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:53:25 +0000

hey Mark,

this issue you have interest me a bit, i will attempt to install xmms on a fresh install just to see.

the bug you linked concerns an older version of XMMS on lenny at the time it was in testing, it’s from 2005 and seems like the bug was resolved by removing the package from debian. .. . : [

if you would like to continue our discussion i’d be happy to do so via standard email.. (link to my site => contact and then we’ll see from there)..

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:55:53 +0000

It stated “Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
serial 1505 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0″, when I tried to run it as a normal user.

Apparently (according to another poster at linuxquestions.org) this is a known issue with xmms. It’s further described at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318582 This, I suspect, is likely one of the reasons that xmms was removed from Debian.

By: manu

manu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:35:46 +0000

your issues seems a bit odd, are you in audio group (i assume so), did you check you audio mixer (aumix, alsamixer), they can sometimes for some reason be muted after doing $things.. .

btw, to the site owner: there are way to many advertisements on this site it’s a shame.. :/

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:29 +0000

I tried that backport myself, and found that I was unable to get it going as regular user (it did work as root, though). So, I’m just going to use moc. I tried audacious, and did not like it — it seemed to just have too much stuff for my liking. Alas, I too wish that xmms was back in Debian.

By: manu

manu — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:57:08 +0000

yep Mark, i got that backport. .however i am missing all the extras like flac support, i can’t remember the others, maybe i just stopped listening to music as much since xmms is dying.. .

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:58:36 +0000

There’s a repository with the classic xmms at http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/

By: manu

manu — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:14:27 +0000

the fork i believe is audacious (not audacity, although the names are a bit alike :]), i think it’s less stable…. i can’t remember the events, but i recall something like “wow, simple player you are back in my life” and then a “uh, not quite”…

i want my good old xmms back in debian.. .

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By: ElDiabolo

ElDiabolo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:15:13 +0000

There is a fork (?) named audacity, that is available in lenny. There is also xmms2, but thats a demon that wants to manage a media library – I did not look closer look at it as it is not simple.

By: john

john — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:20:48 +0000

Well, it’s alive, but has been abandoned for lack of a maintainer in Debian. I am also a big fan of XMMS, but have found that after I recently installed my new laptop (with Debian testing, upgrading to unstable), I was unable to install XMMS. It is in the stable tree, been even when adding stable to my sources, it ends up with unresolvable dependency issues. The root of the problem is that it is requiring a newer libglib1.2 than exists in any of the trees. So in Debian, yes XMMS is dead until someone picks it up and becomes a maintainer.

By: shahdan

shahdan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:01:33 +0000

Open source will forever alive..
so do XMMS…

By: virens

virens — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:32:19 +0000

2 anonymouscoward Says:
>> XMMS is dead, though, ABANDONED
Program is alive until at least only one human uses it. Thus, XMMS is live.

By: anonymouscoward

anonymouscoward — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:35:46 +0000

XMMS is dead, though, ABANDONED