How do I, set MPlayer as default and remove Totem?
 

I guess this is better suited for here now. I'm a new user of Ubuntu and have been running linux for only a month so I don't know a ton. What I want to do is:

Remove Totem? I assume something like apt-unistall totem but I'm not sure, I want that gone as it doesn't work anyway. I need something easy here or a step by step.

Second, how do I make MPlayer my default player? Or get an icon under Applications Multimedia?

I'm trecking right along and very happy now. If I could just use MPlayer to open mpegs I click on the links of while surfing? With the "other" os it's easy, in Ubuntu I'm lost and need a step by step on this as well.

Thanks so much for all this help!

Adam

you can try 'apt-get remove totem'. I believe there was an option where you can also get rid of the configuration files. try 'man apt-get', and then you can read which is the option.

Come on, this is easy, can't somebody help me?

Adam

Okay, 1 1/2 down and 1/2 to go!

I figured out how to remove Totem, also how to get MPlayer to open up all the MPEGs and so on that I click on!

So how do I get it to open up the files I click on while I'm browsing with firefox?

Also, if you know a good P@P that's easy to install with Ubuntu I'd be very happy!

Adam

Could you post how you got MPlayer to do that? I'm in the same situation.

you will need mplayerplugin for firefox/mozilla playback. once you build it, put the .so file in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins. Personally, (this is my opinion only), I think the totem/gxine plugins are better for playing things from the web so you might want to check them out too.

Oops, sorry. All I was actually interested in is getting MPlayer to be the default video player in Gnome, as opposed to totem.