On 20140722_1037+0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 22.07.2014 00:00, Paul E Condon a écrit : > >Please help. > > Wow nice off-topic... I have no idea about where this is related to > the question of the interest of splitting debian-user ML into a > stable and a testing ML... > > Anyway, we can guess from what you posted that you have started vlc > somewhere. > > To add to what other have replied, I guess that you have started VLC > with the same terminal you use for mutt, with an invocation like this > "vlc &". > If I'm right, then those messages are "normal", you summoned VLC from > a terminal, VLC use it as stdin, stdout and stderr. For a reason I do > not know, it have some problems with some requests which has been > sent to it, so it complains on it's stderr. > > There are more than one solutions: > > * start VLC from another terminal or a graphic stuff(alt+F2 is a > common shortcut under linux's DEs to summon a dialog to start > things), so that it won't pollute your mutt terminal > * start VLC through nohup, like this "$ nohup vlc&" > * start VLC and redirect it standard outputs (which is what nohup > does) for example into /dev/null: "$ vlc >/dev/null 2>/dev/null &" > > Hope it helps. > > Since we are here, if you are a terminal user, you might find mpd + > mpc (and other frontends like ario, ncmpcpp, lot of widgets to pin on > taskbars, and lot of other clients) interesting. The stronger point > about mpd+mpc is that you'll be able to integrate it into your window > manager, because mpd is a daemon and mpc a command-line tool, so it's > damn easy to bind mpc to the shortcuts you want. > For videos, you might use mplayer or mpv, which are more specialized > and so lighter than VLC.
I use xfce4 and gnome-terminal for reading mail in Mutt. I know that I am on a mailing list that emails me links to youtube. This phenom has started after a recent reinstall of Wheezy using v7.6 netinst CD. I keep terminal windows open for long periods of time, including the window for Mutt. Switching Mutt to a newly opened gnome-terminal window made the problem go away. I haven't yet received an email from the youtube list, or otherwise done something that might make it reappear, but I think my fears of an alien invasion of my Wheezy have been laid to rest. But actually eliminating the underling problem can wait until I have more time and can think. Concerning burying my request for help in an existing thread. I used Emacs to delete the reply-to header line and thought that would be enough. Obviously, not. I have learned yet another thing not to do. I apologize. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140722161643.ga29...@big.lan.gnu
