The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x (it isn't fully GTK, but the panels are). The skins
are stored in PNG format, so GTK, libpng
(and their devel stuff, usually called gtk-dev
and libpng-dev
) has to be installed.
You can build it by specifying --enable-gui during
./configure. Then, to turn on GUI mode, you have to
execute the gmplayer binary.
Currently you can't use the -gui option on the command line, due to technical reasons.
As MPlayer doesn't have a skin included, you
have to download them if you want to use the GUI. See the download page.
They should be extracted to the usual system-wide directory ($PREFIX/share/mplayer/Skin), or to $HOME/.mplayer/Skin.
MPlayer by default looks in these directories
for a directory named default, but
you can use the -skin newskin
option, or the skin=newskin
config file directive to use
the skin in */Skin/newskin
directory.