[MPlayer-users] Skins for the GUI

[Bjorn Hansen]

umm. . nevermind I'm slightly retarded mb.  problem was the files inside the 
skin directories weren't world readable, just the directories themselves.  
srry I just spammed everybody ; P


> > > Are the skin folders (Skin/default etc) world readable?  If you are
> > > trying to use them as a user instead of as root then you will get that
> > > message. It should be in TFM, I'm almost sure it is...
> > >
> > > /S. Smith
> >
> > no I made sure to chmod all those directories so they have rwxr-xr-x. 
> > That bit i didn't see in the manual but there was something about it in
> > the archives.  any other ideas?
>
> hmm,  now this is wierd.  if I run gmplayer as root, it works, as a user,
> no luck ( "Skin not found ( default )." ).  The weird thing is it doesn't
> seem to matter about the permissions,   I even chown bjorn, and chmod 777,
> on the default (skin I'm trying to use) directory.  same message.  Seems I
> shouldn't need to be root to use the gui though.
>