[Cialug] How to debug media player/window manager interaction

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 14:45, David Champion wrote:
>Last I knew, xmms was a fairly dead project.

Hmmm, i didn't realize how dead it was. I checked the Changelog and it 
hasn't had a major upstream release since 2004, though the version 
packaged with Debian has had quite a few patches since then.

>There's a project called "beep" or BMP that's apparantly a fork of
> xmms. I tried it, but liked Audacious better. There's also a new fork
> of xmms called xmms2, haven't tried it.

I just looked at the web page for Audacious. It is actually a fork of 
BMP which was a fork of xmms. Audacious forked when development on BMP 
stopped; the developers wanted to start over with "BMPx" which has a 
more amarok/iTunes-like interface. Xmms2 looks to be developing slowly 
and not ready for end-users. Since i don't really want to hack on my 
media player, i'd prefer something a little further along for now. I'll 
give Audacious a try and see if the problems go away. If not i might be 
joining the AfterStep list again and asking why it becomes a CPU pig 
when media players are running.

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