[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer doesnt play nice with windowmanagers

[Anssi Saari]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 03:36:00AM -0500, Hunter Peress wrote:
> in most windowmanagers, mplayer fails to go behind other windows. when
> using a pager, and u go to another page, you'll see a freeze frame of
> the movie and not even be able to move it. minimizing too will leave the
> frame just there.
 
That behavior sounds exactly like what ATI Radeon XV drivers do in
XFree86 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. You can improve it by installing Gatos ati.2
drivers, from gatos.sf.net. It also gives some other features, like
contrast setting.