6 Feb
2003
6 Feb
'03
10:34 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 02:29:47PM -0800, Jason Bishop wrote:
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
this may not be exactly what your looking for, but it works for me.
% history 537 Xvfb -screen 0 1024x768x16 :1 & 538 export DISPLAY=:1 539 xterm -e ~/pkg/bin/gmplayer -ao alsa9 /tmp/Chauffe2.mp3 &
xterm should exit when you quit mplayer, so the only thing left laying around is Xvfb and you can reuse that (and if you give it small resolution it shouldn't take up much space).
This is immensely wasteful! You should really "man screen" or just redirect mplayer's stdin from /dev/null. Rich