SMPlayer Support Forum

Hello,

I first want to say that SMPlayer is an awesome all-in-one player which I have to say is better than alot of media players out there (such as, VLC and CCCP) , and I have been using this player for a long time now. I ran into a bug recently which I can reproduce everytime in the various desktop environments (DE's).

My system specs are: Linux Mint x86-64 version 17.1 (based on the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), 8 GB of RAM, AMD A10-4600M APU, Xorg-ATI open source Radeon video drivers (not AMD proprietary drivers) , "vdpau" and "mpv" set as default in SMPlayer.

Background:
After installing SMPlayer 16.7 I noticed that I couldn't open player in some of my DE's such as, IceWM, OpenBox, XFCE. However, I was still able to open it in my default desktop environment KDE version 4.4. I had to downgrade to an earlier version of SMPlayer to have it function in the aforementioned DE's. However, I still don't have screenshot functionality which I lost around v 16.1.

Summary:
SMPlayer (v16.6 and later) and SMTube don't open in XFCE, IceWM, OpenBox. In addition, the screenshot functionality doesn't work in any of the 16.x versions of SMPlayer.
If you require any more information or debugging info, please let me know and I will do the best I can to accommodate.

Thank you for your time.

Do you get any error message if you try to run smplayer from a terminal?

Some users reportes crashes on startup when the HDPI support was enabled. However this option is disabled by default in SMPlayer 16.7. If you turned it on, try deleting the file ~/.config/smplayer/hdpi.ini

About the screenshot option, be sure the folder for screenshots in Preferences -> General does exist.

I've just installed icewm on Ubuntu 16.04. SMPlayer 16.7 works fine for me.

Try this: check the option "save smplayer log to a file" in Preferences -> Advanced -> Logs. Then run smplayer and then send me the file ~/.config/smplayer/smplayer_log.txt so that I can try to figure out what's wrong.

About the screenshot problem, I'll also need the log. Try to take a screenshot and then send me the smplayer log (menu View).

I just installed the latest version of SMPlayer v16.8. I still experienced the same problem; however, I tried installing the SMPlayer qt4 version (16.8) and now works in all the DE's that I have. But the screenshot functionality is still missing.