On Wednesday 28 Feb 2007, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 06:54, Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 00:14, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > > El Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:53:54 +0100 > > > > > > Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > Mick writes: > > > > > How am I supposed to specify sox? /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any > > > > > sound. > > > > > > > > Have a look at this "Do I really need aRts?" thread, in the middle it > > > > says: > > > > > > > > "now, copy this script into /usr/bin/Ksplay: > > > > > > > > #! /bin/sh > > > > sox "$@" -v 1.0 -q -t alsa default & > > > > > > > > emerge sox to get an external sound player for > > > > kdm events. Go into the control center, click > > > > system notifications and click "player settings" > > > > near the bottom. Click "use external player" > > > > and then type /usr/bin/Ksplay. > > > > " > > > > > > > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-526080-highlight-arts.html > > > > > > > > Alex > > > > > > Alternatively you can just use the script "/usr/bin/play", included in > > > the sox package. > > > > Cool! I seem to have missed this in man sox. It plays system sounds now > > nicely. > > Blast! I spoke too soon. It /usr/bin/play plays system sounds fine, by > alsa will not mix them if e.g. amarok is playing in the background. It's > either one or the other. Do I need to rebuild kdelibs without arts for it > to work? This should really be simpler.
i recently went through this after something broke in arts. I turned off the KDE sound system and in the System Notifications dialog, specified "playsound" as the external player (found in sdl-sound package). You can also use "mplayer" but the module is enormous. Everything works really well now, with no drop-outs during the KDE Start/Stop fan-fares. :) HTH -Robin. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Robin Atwood ------------------------------------------------------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
