[gentoo-user] smplayer and kmplayer only works (almost) OK as root

[Francisco Ares]

Hi, All,

I am trying to use smplayer or kmplayer as a regular user. They both don't
work: kmplayer keeps saying that it is waiting mplayer buffering and
smplayer reports "Mplayer has finished unexpectedly. Exit code:1".

Running both as root from a terminal, the following message appeared:


KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid
main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to
call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You
should not do that since it most likely will not work
kmplayer(8687): Session bus not found
To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
export $(dbus-launch)


I did that export while still as root, and then both started to work, so
there is no problem with them, but some setting is missing. Additionally,
even that export did not work for smplayer/kmplayer as regular user.

What should I do next? Where to look at?

Thanks a lot
Francisco
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