Whenever I run XMMS it's always in notification mode (Ie, blinking for attention). I have not been able to find out why, or how to disable this. My use flags for Xmms: media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15 USE="alsa esd flac mad mikmod mp3 nls oss vorbis -3dnow -arts -directfb -jack -lirc -mmx -sndfile" Portage settings: Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre13 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage.distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo" LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8" LC_ALL="sv_SE.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl snmp spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_-sis video_cards_-rage128 video_cards_-matrox video_cards_-3dfx video_cards_-gamma video_cards_-i8x0" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
xmms always in systray ?? xmms doesn't support systray out-of-box. Probably you are using any plugin. try remove your ~/.xmms dir and all xmms packages then install it and run again...
I think you are wrong about the application xmms doesn't support systray notification.