[MPlayer-users] mplayer from mozilla in background

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Dec 16 20:01:52 CET 2003


On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:29:33PM +0100, Mario Valle wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> In the mozilla helper applications I defined mplayer as the player for AVI 
> files.
> So far so good.
> But if I start mozilla in the background with
>     mozilla &
> mplayer does not appear until I put mozilla again in the foreground.
> Any suggestion?
> I have lost a tread on mozilla, maybe there was the answer.
> Thanks a lot!

Use mplayer </dev/null

Rich



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