On 12/12/09, Remco <re...@d-compu.dyndns.org> wrote: > Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I've run in some problem with gnome-mplayer. Basicaly, there is a >> difference in functioning if I run this application from xterm or >> graphical menu ( i use fbpanel menu). From xterm it works fine, it >> plays the movie. From graphical menu, it doesn't. It reports a "Bad >> file descriptor". >> >> More details are here (gnome-mplayer list): >> > http://groups.google.com/group/gecko-mediaplayer/browse_thread/thread/9b940dfb583c0651 >> >> So, can anyone spot a difference of the two ways of running an application >> ? >> >> Thanks > > This is a bit of a long shot. > > I noticed when running a desktop system like Gnome or KDE the process limits > of users in the default class may get in the way. (Don't know how resource > hungry your desktop system is) > > You could look at ksh(1) for the ulimit option to increase the number of > processes / file descriptors. You may also want to use / set up a class > different from the default. (see login.conf(5)) > > e.g. > to raise some limits I've put myself in the staff class and I have this in > my ~/.profile: > ulimit -Sd 2048000 -Sn 1024 -Sp256 > > > >
I did it, but no luck either. It must be something else, I mean there is a clear functionality difference if I run this from terminal compared to graphicam wm menu. But what can be ? Any other ideas ? Thanks
