I wonder if you can also put the process in the background then bring elinks up to the forground. Never tried it but I never thought you were supposed to have that ability. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:29 PM Subject: Re: Elinks: Controling Media Player > I usually run mplayer from within lynx, but I should think the same > technique should work on your system. While mplayer is running > (buffer values being displayed, maybe some audio playing, etc), try > pressing CTRL-C. On my system, pressing CTRL-C causes mplayer to > produce a message about an interrupt taking place in some module or > other, and then mplayer terminates. > > HTH, and have a _great_ day! > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:50:44AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > When I wanna play a link over the internet through elinks, I've got my > > mime types and mailcap so mplayer gets launched and that seems to work > > fine but I can't get the keyboard to focus to mplayer. I'm sort of > > locked out. I can't control elinks while mplayer is running and I can't > > get into mplayer. When the file finishes, I get control of elinks back. > > Otherwise, I have to go into another console to kill mplayer if I don't > > wanna wait for the file to end. I think I'm missing an option some > > place to get this to work right. Can anyone help me out? Thanks. > > > > - -- > > HolmesGrown Solutions > > The best solutions for the best price! > > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFDOcuKWSjv55S0LfERA04rAKCJ16GDVmboElFkTGsvAGXTNG1/uwCgkXXz > > mJk2GWKOP2P7QNslNSiU0l4= > > =2O5i > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! > CIRCLE RADIUS = sqrt (x ^ 2 + y ^ 2) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
