XMMS replacement

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  Christopher Browne's suggestion of running XMMS2 with a GKrellM plugin
>  as a front-end sounds pretty sweet, though--I'll be looking into that.

Let me note that, on Debian, the following packages provide XMMS2 front ends:
- abraca (GTK2)
- esperanza (Qt)
- gkrellxmms2 (the aforementioned GKrellM plugin)
- gxmms2 (GTK2)
- wmxmms2 (WindowMaker plugin)
- xmms2-client-cli (CLI-based controls; makes for easy scripting of control)

I just switched over to wmxmms2, which is convenient in that I run
WindowMaker, and it consumes about 1/4 the RAM of GKrellM, which I was
really only using to run the XMMS2 client :-).  It only offers
"stop+rewind" functionality, but I'm usually near enough to an xterm
to get at the "xmms2" CLI client :-)
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