mplayer, vlc, gimp issues in the past week [update]

[Jimmie James]

[update] After playing around, sometimes, after restarting X, they'll 
work fine, once or twice, then start acting up.  Killing firefox and 
thunderbird, they all start acting normal again. With FF and TB running, 
running mplayer -vo x11 file.foo  works, however only in a small window, 
can't full screen it, and alt+4 (increase brightness) acts on every 
application that's open, including the root window.

Can anyone offer advice where to debug this further, or suggestions how 
to resolve this?

Hi, not 100% sure where this is coming from, but in the past 7-10 (now 
14-ish) days (my port update times) something has triggered the following.

mplayer foo.flv results in it crashing with:
X11 error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: decode_video

vlc foo.flv results in it playing the clip, but with the following error:
(.:80554): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)

and starting up the gimp causes:
(gimp:80561): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on 
device)
(gimp:80561): Gimp-Plug-In-WARNING **: shmget() failed: No space left on 
device
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