vlc & mplayer lost window borders and controls

[Garrett Cooper]

On Jan 26, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Michal Varga wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:20 PM, icemaca <icemaca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> back to the drawing board then. still baffled why mplayer too
>>
> Dunno if this is your case, but you may be confused by the way mplayer
> GUI is launched. Normally, "mplayer" runs a GUI-less version of
> mplayer, and as you have been using gnome/menu/icons before, you may
> not be aware of this, my guess. GTK version of mplayer is launched via
> "gmplayer" (that's pretty much the one that your icons were using).
> Well, and since the recent xorg upgrade, that one stopped working, at
> least for me:
>
> $ gmplayer
> MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
> CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) 8450 Triple-Core Processor (Family: 16, Model: 2,
> Stepping: 3)
> [...]
> [ws] Error in display.
> [ws]  Error code: 10 ( BadAccess (attempt to access private resource  
> denied) )
> [ws]  Request code: 146
> [ws]  Minor code: 1
> [ws]  Modules: (NULL)

	Have you read / followed through UPDATING yet? Everything based on  
xcb has to be rebuilt (I'm still working on fixing my forked up copy  
of xchat2).
-Garrett