Maybe this is more along the lines of a newbie question, mods can move the thread if needed I guess.

Simple question about xmms. I'm using xmms 1.2.8 with KDE 3.1.4 on a RedHat9 system (linux kernel 2.4.22 if you care). When I open konqueror and browse my files and click on my first music file, everything is what I would call normal.

I can then drag and drop more music files into the playlist and everything is just fine. No problem hearing the music.

The problem I'm having is that when I click a new song out of the konqueror browser, it will apparently try to spawn a new xmms session. My mouse turns to an hourglass and there's an xmms task in the taskbar. This doesn't affect how the song plays though. Everything still plays just fine. (And yes I've tried chaning the file type and putting "xmms -e %F" and it didnt' help. In fact, -e is even more annoying. It just adds the song to the end of the play list rather than starting it right away but I still get the hourglass and taskbar thing.)

So is there something I'm missing? A command switch that prevent xmms from trying to spawn another session? (If that's even what is happening.)

Thanks for any help.

Instead of open the files from the konqueror, open the xmms and open the files of music u wanna hear from it. At this way it shall not do the thing of open another xmms. How just are newbie just intall linux one day ago, not know how solve the problen u have of what open it from the konqueror.

hey I just tried that
klikn on the file in Konqueror
it brings up Kaboodle and plays the file

how do I reset that to default on Xmms

Right click on a MP3 file in Konqueror, choose "Edit File Type". On the "General" tab, make sure Xmms is listed in the "Application Preference Order" and at the Top.

On the "Embedding" tab, make sure "Show file in embedded viewer" is not checked.

This should fix it

Baldrick

ratz
my desktop is buggered up
right clicking in Konqueror
just backs up one level

but it does play a preview of the ogg file , as long as I don't move the mouse

rats oh well

Go to the options for configuring Konqueror, click on Konqueror browser on the left side and in the HTML tab on the right, uncheck "Right click goes back in history". I think that might fix it.

ok
on Konqueror tool bar
settings
configure Konqueror
Behavior
unclicked move back in history

still responds the same

tis no worry
I prefer to open xmms and let the files random play anyways