[xmonad] doShift vs mplayer

[Ben Boeckel]

Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that is a known issue with mplayer. I will be contacting mplayer
> maintainer about this. This happens because mplayer waits for the window
> to be mapped to begin playing in its code. I have fixed it with few minor
> modifications here -- http://git.wnohang.net/cgit.cgi/mplayer2.git/. I
> will try to get it merged upstream.

Is it an option? I can think of times when it would be nice to have
mplayer not play until it has a window (presentations come to mind).

--Ben