[Slightly OT] System sounds

[Ondrej Mihalyi]

I use a simple program play, which plays wav files, if I remember correctly.  It comes with package sox on debian systems.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:25:45 -0700
Paul Bucalo <pmbuc at spymac.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed Nov 10  9:42 , Andrew Conkling <andrewski at fr.st> sent:
> 
> >When you have programs that are enhanced by some sound interaction (I'm
> >thinking particularly of X-chat's sounds on PMs), what do you do?  I've
> >looked for some system sound packages, but the few I found depended on
> >certain WMs to be installed.  And there's NO reason to install anything
> >next to xfwm... :D
> >
> >Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> I have used 'esound' to play sounds for programs like Sylpheed-claws under XFce.
> It can be found here:
> 
> http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/download.html
> 
> I believe there needs to be some Enlightenment files installed as well, but the
> site tells you where to get them.
> 
> It has worked well for me to run 'esd' as a start-up service, then set up the
> program to make direct calls to the esound player (with corresponding sound file
> name) for the event I wish to have sound for. 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Paul
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