Spotify black-out

[mauriceg]

I've just started using PCLOS MiniMe on an old machine. Once again the distro shows the benefits of careful packaging and use of resources.

Apart from the failure of Firefox to run, the only difficulty so far has been with Spotify, the online music streaming service, which has now reached the U.S.

Whether I use the latest Windows version of the Spotify installer via Wine or the Linux packaging spotify-client-qt, the result is the same : a large black rectangle fills the screen with no resize, minimise or close options. The only way to get rid of it is to right-click on the Spotify icon in the system tray and choose 'exit'.

I haven't had this problem on my newer machine so maybe it's specific to MiniMe ?

Most of the qt-4 items are already installed in Synaptic.

Any ideas please ?

Maurice George

[rubentje1991]

Do you get the login screen?

[mauriceg]

Yes, I get the log-in box and the start-up seems to begin.

Then it stalls and the black rectangle covers most of the screen.

Spotify used to work fine on this same machine until I changed over to MiniMe.

I really miss my access to just about every CD on earth !

Cheers,

Maurice G.

[rubentje1991]

What did you do to get it working on the previous install?
=> is everything succeeded getting it to working?

MiniMe isn't very easy => to have some things working, it requires you to know which packages are needed
: most of the times used by packagers, as they need an environment with as less packages (dependencies) as possible (so they can include the right ones)....
Maybe someone else have some tip for mauriceg...?

One question though: have you installed the appropriate task-.... packages (for example task-multimedia)?

[kennux]

hi,

i'm not sure I had the same problem.. but I posted a potential solution there:
http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/linux_wine_spotify_0_5_only_a_black_box

This black screen is caused by a small window related to facebook.

Hope it helped

[rubentje1991]

hi,

i'm not sure I had the same problem.. but I posted a potential solution there:
http://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/linux_wine_spotify_0_5_only_a_black_box

This black screen is caused by a small window related to facebook.

Hope it helped

Thanks for posting this.... clear detailed instructions