At 22:22:10 on Monday Monday 14 September 2009, Patrick Shanahan
* Stan Goodman
[09-14-09 14:13]: For what it's worth, <killall xmms> did nothing, and xmms remained in the Panel. Thinking that repeating this as root might be help, I did so, and now the Panel shows "XMMS[2]", i.e. there are two copies of xmms running, I can't see either of them, and neither of them is functional.
In all these years (I have been building and operating computers since before 1950) I have never seen "Rmouse" as a designation for a button. It looks for all the world like the name of a utility. There is a value to uniformity in terminology. It's called "communication".
Hummm, it's as good as "the Panel" as descriptions go. But I guess it only works one way, the eye of the viewer. But then again, it was you that wanted help and it is *your* responsibility to make your situation known, if you really want help.
And then there was the comment:
<quote> And then there is always the possibility of asking knowledgeable people on an appropriate forum, who may have experienced the same problem of a deadish xmms themselves and be willing to share. That was my hope, as a matter of fact.
I envy people that have the time to institute an open-ended research program for each and every problem. I doubt that I am the only one that doesn't. </quote>
You have spent more time bantering in this forum than a quick search for your own answers would have taken. :^)
And, your words, you have been building and operating computers since before 1950. That really sounds like a room full of diodes and a lot of heat. But I suspect that you have taken some liberty with dates or you are *really* old. And be careful here because I am somewhat old with some history.
Replace "room full of diodes" with "magnetic core memories" and lots of vacuum tubes and you have it. The date is what it is. Hard to believe? I don't know why you are ridiculing it, technology then was obviously not what it is now. I seem to have pissed you off, mostly because you've have a chip on your shoulder from the first. Sorry. This thread has gone further than it should have; the problem was and is not worth it. Life is really too short. It's over. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org