reconfigured Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 mandrake 10.1, KDE. installed xine about a week ago. must have changed some file associations or something somewhere. when i click my mp3 folder xine is launched and will play a single song then stop, but i cant close it. it just sits there, the windows wont close (they minimize) cant right click either. this only happens when clicking my mp3 folder. the only way to eventually get rid of it is to reboot. clicking my drives,floppy and trash bin from the desktop also launches xine! ok i just associated my mp3 folder on the desktop with amarok by right clicking then open with, now my drives,floppy and trashbin launch amarok.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 22, 2005 Report Share Posted May 22, 2005 Reboot? You defintely don't have to, at the very worst hit alt+F2 and now "xkill". You associated a folder with an application, and the application now acts a file manager- I do not find anything strange at that... what is strange is why you liked to make such an association. Login as root, and delete the hidden .kde and .xine folders at your /home/user drectory- then log back in as user. You will find all your KDE settings reset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reconfigured Posted May 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 thanks for reply scarecrow. --woops-- i was trying to associate xine with a folder on my desktop that has all my mp3 inside. so when i open the folder and pick a mp3, xine would launch to play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 23, 2005 Report Share Posted May 23, 2005 (edited) You should only change associations of a few files and file extensions, not folders and executables. xine has a KDE frontend named kaffeine, which gives you a rightclick context menu ( something like "add to kaffeine's playlist"). same applies for amarok. Edited May 23, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 24, 2005 Report Share Posted May 24, 2005 Yeah, you can't really set an association for a single folder. KDE is interpreting it as 'associate (all folders) with amarok', which is all it can really do. You'd probably be better to associate MP3 files with amarok instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reconfigured Posted May 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2005 great, thanks for replies--- i will use amarok for mp3 playing it looks like mp3 are already associated with amarok and kaffeine. i found the file association panel under the KDE control center.still learning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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