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willis3000

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2005-07-27

Posts: 28

Mplayer Makes Terminal Cursor Idle

Hi,
A weird problem just came up recently.  I would start mplayer from the a terminal (eg. xterm), and after I close mplayer the cursor in the terminal stays idle when I type anything.  I could still issue commands and new lines still work, but whatever I type won't appear.  It's kind of like typing password in command line.  This happens with many terminal emulators (xterm, mrxvt, gnome-terminal, etc.)  Any idea what's wrong?

Thanks!

Will

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Mplayer Makes Terminal Cursor Idle

I've noticed that too, but I don't know what's wrong. My workaround is to stop it from the terminal (Ctrl+C) instead of closing the mplayer window.

sh__

Member

Registered: 2005-07-19

Posts: 272

Re: Mplayer Makes Terminal Cursor Idle

Does pressing 'q' or 'ESC' in the mplayer window result in a clean exit?

_Gandalf_

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Registered: 2006-01-12

Posts: 735

Re: Mplayer Makes Terminal Cursor Idle

Hmmm.. it works good here, i tried bith xterm and gnome-terminal

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Mplayer Makes Terminal Cursor Idle

'q' works - nice one, sh__.