Gogglesmm crashes immediately on startup

This is most likely a crash in the graphics driver. Multiple cases have been reported involving the fglrx driver. Try starting with

 gogglesmm --disable-opengl

If this doesn't help, please file a bug report.

libFOX-1.6.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This basically means that the program is unable to locate the required shared library. If you are sure you've installed the required shared library, make sure the path to this library is in /etc/ld.so.conf or in the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. These control which directories will searched. In many cases /usr/local/lib is not one of them.

Another solution would be to reinstall the library in one of the standard library paths. In case of FOX you would do:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

Icons not shown correctly

If some of the icons show up as a white rectangle with the letters "PNG" in it, it basically means that FOX was built without PNG support. If you've build FOX yourself make sure the PNG library is on your system as well as the header files. Some distributions will have these separated in two packages: png and png-devel. The latter will contain the necessary header files.

No anti-aliased fonts / Ugly Fonts

This feature is disabled by default in FOX. If you've build FOX yourself, make sure you've specified --with-xft=yes on the FOX configure command line.

Non-Ascii characters are not displayed correctly

Most likely because the font that's being used doesn't have the required symbols and since FOX doesn't do font sets (e.g. use multiple fonts to display text from multiple languages), you need to use a font that has all the symbols you want to display. You can change the font in the Preferences dialog under Appearance.

(gogglesmm <= 0.10.26) The other problem you might encounter, is even if you choose a font that has the symbols, it may not have the right encoding. This is less of an issue if FOX was compiled with Xft support but in any case make sure you set the "Character Set" in the font dialog when selecting a font is set to "Unicode". Any other encoding won't work.

I personally like the dejavu font myself, which includes a lot unicode of symbols.

Non-UTF8 encoded file or directory names are not displayed correctly

File and directory names are currently being treated as UTF-8, even if the locale indicates otherwise. This should only be a display problem however, you should be able to play any file, no matter what encoding is used for the filename. For now, either only use plain ascii filenames or convert your filenames to UTF-8 encoding.

Trouble reading tags from samba mounted shares

The basic issue is that TagLib uses access() to read the file permissions in the 1.4 release, but that's buggy on some read-only SMB versions. The fix is available in TagLib 1.5.

Is Goggles Music Manager a Google Product?

No. In case you have trouble reading: it's "Goggles". Not "Googles" or "Google's".

How to turn off the miniplayer mode?

Press F11 to open back the full window. Or press the close button on the window itself.