[SOLVED] XMMS size

[Member Peter Linu]

Hi a,
Any chance of making XMMS able to change size with the little vertical/horizontal arrows?
We aged folk find so much difficulty seeing normal-sized stuff. The available ‘double’ is simple not big enough.

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[Member punranger]

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That sounds like an issue you should ask the XMMS developers about. The forum seems to be offline, but the website is at https://www.xmms.org/.

Maybe some of the skins listed there might be of help?

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[Moderator BobC]

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Did you try Ctrl+D?

That should make it double sized.

[Member iznit]

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Instead of battling xmms, try some of many other available audio players. I’ll suggest “audacious” for starters.

some others: clementine , deadbeef , vlc

[Member blur13]

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“cmus” is legible and in the repos.

[Moderator christophe]

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BobC wrote:

Did you try Ctrl+D?

That should make it double sized.

Brilliant!

And xmms remembers the size next time!

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[Member Peter Linu]

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“The available ‘double’ is simple not big enough.”…shows that I already tried that and it’s still not big enough.

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[Member Peter Linu]

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OK. I’ll try a different player.

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[Moderator BobC]

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Peter, You seem to always want things larger on the screen.

One option is to attach a larger screen
Another option is to change your DPI settings, but that will affect other things too.
Another option is to use a terminal based program, and increase the font size in your terminal.

Another option is to find a different program. Might try search for:

alternatives to xmms linux

kodi is available from the Packager installer (or Software installer)

[Moderator BobC]

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I found one that I like. I’ve been looking for one that does really well thought out playlists. It’s not in the antiX repos, it’s from the MX repos. Not sure it’s supported longer term.

http://mirrors.rit.edu/mxlinux/mx-packages/mx/testrepo/pool/test/g/guayadeque/guayadeque_0.4.6+git20210917-0mx21_amd64.deb

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[Member Peter Linu]

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Hi BobC,
Deadbeaf will probably do. It can be made larger but the best of all that I’ve found over 25 years is Foobar2000. It’s made in Linux. I wonder how difficult it would be to get it to work here?

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[Member Peter Linu]

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BobC,
Judging by your playlist, it seems that we have similar tastes in music.

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Search web for foobar2000 linux alternatives

Foobar2000 can be run, I think, but Wine or Snap methodologies are not for me. I prefer to find something that is happy running under linux. I’ve tried a few more, but they were crappy compared to guayadeque. It manages to guess things from my collection that I will like without me needing to fuss with it. I’ll probably stick with it for now. I just needed some background music for while I work.

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