xmms crashing at startup (Solved)

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 03:02:32PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:52:41 -1000
> Robert Marella <rmarella at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:46:36 -0400
> > Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Manolis Kiagias writes:
> > > 
> > > >  I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3:
> > > >  
> > > >  sonic at freebsdgr:~$ xmms
> > > >  Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> > > >    serial 1492 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> > > >  Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> > > >    serial 1493 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> > > >  
> > > >  I tried uninstalling and recompiling the port, nothing changed.
> > > >  I also can't find anything meaningful about this in Google. Any
> > > > ideas?
> > > 
> > > 	Same here, with slight variation:
> > > 
> > > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> > >   serial 2435 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 				Robert Huff
> > 
> > Has anything been done to correct this? I am still experiencing this
> > on two separate machines. One of which is running i386 and the other
> > amd64. Both are running Stable and xorg 7.3
> > 
> > [robert at asus64] ~> xmms
> > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   serial 1463 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> > 
> > All ports are up to date as of today.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Robert
> 
> In the time honored FreeBSD tradition of answering my own email, I have
> XMMS working again.
> 
> I moved the .xmms directory in my home directory to old.xmms and
> started XMMS again. Low and behold it created a new .xmms directory and
> XMMS started. The only problem that I have is I can no longer douvle
> the size of the graphic player. 
> 
> I didn't mention before but I am using xfce4.4.1_1
> 
> Robert



	Again , same thing: mv .xmms to XMMSold got things working; but
	doubling the size of the app fails.
	gary



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