Since I don't know how familiar with linux you are, I'm forced to take a guess, based on your asking about the searching in xterm; please don't be offended if I'm guessing low.

from the /home/user directory, try this statement in xterm:

If you don't know where the /home/user directory is, it's where you end up when you open a new xterm window, so closing your current xterm and opening a new one will put you there easily.

Files under the /home/user directory with conf in their name should show up. The .mplayer directory is "hidden" by that period at the beginning of ".mplayer" and will/ should show up in that search if it's there.


Joe