mplayer-gui disappears

[Kevin Brown]

>   Quick summery: mplayer-gui flickers a small window
> and disappears in the blink of an eye.
> 
>   This is a once step forward - two steps back
> problem. I've been working on getting video streaming
> to work (in firefox) and mostly have gotten it. I
> worked through the problem on my laptop then
> implemented the solution on my desktop also.
> 
>   The desktop is fine, but I must have messed up
> something in tinkering on the laptop. mplayer-gui was
> previous working. In my tinkering I had also installed
> then remove Kaffiene. When I discovered it I used
> Yumex to remove and re-install mplayer and its
> components. The mplayerplug-in still works with
> streaming, but the mplayer-gui still has the same
> problem.
> 
>   Is there somewhere to find a log to see what's
> happening? Anyoone seen this before or know a fix?

launch from a terminal window and you should be able to see the errors 
right there.  I'm not sure if those messages are logged anywhere when 
the program is launched via X WM stuff (e.g. menus or run command).