Hi, Simon Baxter wrote: >>> 1) Just when I thought I had this licked! I had this working, but >>> now even >>> after 4 new installs of VDR I get the same result >>> >>> I make the skincurses plugin, as normal, and kick everything off with: >>> ./vdr -P'xine -r' -P'skincurses' >>> >>> VDR seems to work ok under X, but the skincurses won't start on a shell. >> >> Did you actually select the curses skin as the current skin? > > I'm sorry? > > How do I select the curses skin? In the past I just started it with > ./vdr -P'xine -r' -P'skincurses' Please read vdr-xine's HISTORY (0.7.3) more carefully. And MANUAL will explain the following switches: ./vdr -P'xine -q -r -s' -P'skincurses' Bye. -- Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Reinhard Nissl mailto:rnissl@xxxxxx