2.6. What about the GUI?
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## 2.6. What about the GUI?

The GUI needs GTK 1.2.x or GTK 2.0 (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 (`$PREFIX/share/mplayer/skins`), or to `$HOME/.mplayer/skins`. 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 `*/skins/newskin` directory.

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