various tips on xmms

lirc

The xmms-lirc plugin for IR remote control does not cooperate with libtrash. xmms will crash when the lirc plugin is initialized. To use xmms+lirc without the libtrash wrapper you can start xmms with a small shell script:

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$LD_PRELOAD" = "/usr/local/lib/libtrash.so" ] ; then
  unset LD_PRELOAD
fi

/usr/local/bin/xmms "$@"

The same is true for the xmms alternative audacious. You can use the same script as above is you substitute xmms with audacious.

Of course the shell script could be smarter, so that it checks for a string like libtrash.so in LD_PRELOAD and only removes the relevant path and leaving any other preloaded libraries in there.

further reading

Have a look at my xmms patch collection.