totem starts with a playlist full of garbage files

[luca.ferraro]

Binary package hint: totem

First of all: I'm not using GNOME, but just an X session with compiz.

When I launch "totem", the player comes up with a playlist full of files loaded from all subdirectories of my home dir (also hidden ones). I expected TOTEM not to load any file in the playlist at startup, or at least to load those from my last totem run.

I sign this as a bug because I expect TOTEM to behave well even outside the GNOME desktop environment...

Questions:
1) Can I controll TOTEM playlist to DO NOT load anything at startup or to load files from a specific directory (from preferences, for example)?
2) What do I miss in launching TOTEM from a simple desktop environment such as a clean X with a windowmanager?

Thank you in advance,

luca

Using:
UBUNTU 8.04.1
totem 2.22.1-0ubuntu2

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 19 11:16:48 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-18-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you are the first one to describe this issue, it's likely something specific to your installation

[luca.ferraro (luca-ferraro)]

Dear Sebastien,

thank you for your quick answer. The behaviour I just described comes from launching TOTEM from "grun", a GTK launcher that I pop-up to start program in my plain-vanilla-compiz environment. In fact, runnig TOTEM from an xterm works well.

So, the problem is with grun, not a TOTEM bug. We can close the thread.

Anyway, I recast my question: is there any config file or way to tell TOTEM to automatically load a playlist on startup?

Thankyou again,

luca

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing the bug since that's not one, no there is no option to automatically load a playlist on start, that would be a request to add on bugzilla.gnome.org rather if you really think that would be useful