New mplayer difficulties

[Colin Law]

On 14 October 2015 at 07:22, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11 October 2015 at 20:43, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My Xubuntu 14.04.3 laptop began to display an odd problem with mplayer
>>> about a week ago.  Seems that the keyboard commands no longer work at
>>> all.
>>
>> What does
>> apt-cache policy mplayer2
>> show?
>>
>
> mar at mar8710w:~ $ apt-cache policy mplayer2
> mplayer2:
>   Installed: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2
>   Candidate: 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

That looks ok.  I am not seeing a problem here on Ubuntu 14.04 but I
have not got Xubuntu.  Have you tried it logged in as Guest or a
different user?

Colin