xmms crash

[Robert]

On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:08:26 +0930
Wayne Sierke <ws at au.dyndns.ws> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 08:40 -0700, Robert wrote:
> > xmms crashed with
> > the following data.
> > 
> > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   serial 6299 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> > Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   serial 6300 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0
> 
> As a work-around I launch xmms with this command:
> 
>         /usr/bin/env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 /usr/local/bin/xmms
> 
> Long-standing problem. I don't have a reference handy but Googling for
> xmms and XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS should dig up something relevant.
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
Wayne

I'm sorry it took so long for me to respond. This work around does
indeed work. I put this in a script in ~/HOME and named it XMMS.sh and
all works fine.

Thanks

Robert