Sevatio wrote:

> What is the purpose of "soundwrapper"?  For example, the Kmenu has 
> [soundwrapper xmms] as a command to run Xmms.  Why not just "xmms" as 
> a command?

My understanding is that only one process can have access to the sound 
device at a time. To allow multiple applications to use the sound 
device, a single process grabs the /dev/dsp (probably esd does this) and 
then provides access to the other applications. Soundwrapper is likely 
wrapping xmms in a manner allowing it to use esd.

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