[MPlayer-users] Starting Mplayer without playing a media file

[Lutz Schönemann]

>>>> "gmplayer"
>>> Isn't it the same as calling mplayer with -gui as argument? If I use
>>> gmplayer with the -menu argument the OSD doesn't work. Is there
>>> something wrong with my mplayer?
>> "gmplayer" don't need "-menu" switch so it's easier to launch than 
>> "mplayer -gui -menu" or something like that - if you need GUI.
>> Did you did "./configure" with "--enable-menu" before compilation?
>>
> 
> I'm not sure if ./configure was run with --enable-menu because I'm using 
> the standard installation of mplayer on a gentoo-machine. But the osd 
> menu works fine without -gui.
> I'll check that how gentoo configures mplayer...
> 
> Lutz


Gentoo configures mplayer with menu enabled but gmplayer doesn't work 
with the -menu argument (osd menu doesn't appear after pressing a key 
that is configured for that menu).
Any ideas?

Lutz