[mdlug] mplayer full screen

[Raymond McLaughlin]

gib at juno.com wrote:
> Oh, hey - I tried that gmplayer.  I got an additional box displayed that
> includes controls like on a tape player (forward back . . .)
> But no wrench.

There are different skins, but the the default fits your description. At
the far right is a round button with a large upright "X" which closes
the player. At the far left is a similarly situated round button with a
floating "x chromosome" looking thing. I interpret this as a double end
wrench. It opens the preferences dialog.

> I started having this same problem when I put in a different video card.
> I'm using the command line: mplayer filename -vo x11 
> But ya know, I just learned to live with it.

You could try "mplayer -vo xv" for instancem, and see how you like the
results. And if you want to avoid having to type in extra command line,
you can put you preferences in your personal config file. It's
interesting that mplayer seems to keep two config files: one for the gui
version (~/.mplayer.gui.conf) and one for the command line version
(~/.mplayer/config). This is especially funny because, on my system at
least, /usr/bin/gmplayer is a symlink to /usr/bin/mplayer!

Any clearer?