[MPlayer-users] Error when launching mplayer from WindowMaker

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:52:44PM -0400, Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> 	If I launch the GUI version of MPlayer on the command line
> 	(gmplayer), all is working fine. However, if I try to launch
> 	MPlayer using WindowMaker (entering 'gmplayer' as the command
> 	in the 'Docked Application Settings'), I only see the outline
> 	of the player (all is black in the interior). I obtain the
> 	same error if I launch gmplayer on the command line using
> 	'gmplayer &'. I see no error messages.

Redirect stdin from /dev/null (i.e. use </dev/null).

Rich