XMMS Skins file location?

Forum: Multimedia
Topic: XMMS Skins file location?
started by: Philter

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Posted by Philter on Feb. 12 2005,01:01

I installed DSL to an old K6/2-450. Works great! I just have one question. I used MyDSL and installed the XMMS Skins. A few work, but many don't. I have run into this before in another distro. The "zip" files aren't properly recognized, but the "tar.gz" files work as expected. This would be easy to fix, but I can't find the skins files. In most distros they are located in /usr/shares/xmms/Skins. But when I check DSL, this folder doesn't exist. The files are somewhere because XMMS Skin Chooser gives me a nice list, but for the life of me I can't figure out where they are.
Anybody got any ideas where I can find them so I can unzip them and make them available to Skins Chooser?  Thanks in advance.

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Posted by adraker on Feb. 12 2005,01:18

Philter-

Skins are probably going to /home/dsl/.xmms,
you may need the gnu-utils package loaded first
to handle the zippy files otherwise you're left
with the busybox functions.

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Posted by Philter on Feb. 12 2005,01:44

Thanks, this is just what I needed. I forgot to look for "/." folder in /home.
Much appreciated!!

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Posted by ke4nt1 on Feb. 12 2005,03:35

adraker is correct..

If you ditch the default busybox for the true gnu-utils.dsl,
the "zip" issue disappears..  

bad, bad busybox..

73
ke4nt

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Posted by adraker on Feb. 12 2005,05:20

Yes, no need to turn zipped skins into
.tar.gz or anything....

Upon the desktop appearing, I like to open and close
xmms before doing anything with it.
Its always good to have gnu-utils and dsl-dpkg
autoloading, or installed to HD installation.

Then you know you've got GNU tar and zip for real.
Probably a lot of other things I haven't noticed yet
too.
Oh, yeah.. ke4nt got some important libraries in there
as well.

Enjoy KE4NT brand skins!
More skins for your Buck!

What a terrible pun.
(/me waddles off hanging head in shame, but snickering anyway)

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