[Slightly OT] System sounds

[Paul Bucalo]

On Wed Nov 10 10:29 , Andrew Conkling <andrewski at fr.st> sent:

>Some time ago (probably on Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:25:45 -0700)
>Paul Bucalo pmbuc at spymac.com> had occasion to say the following:
>> 
>> 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.
>
>Right, but which files do you play?  I already have the program I want
>to use, just no files. :-)

To start with?

'/usr/share/sounds/'

or something similar (depending on your distro).

Additional WAV files can be had over the Web. It doesn't matter whether they are
from a Windows or Linux platform. ANy WAV file you find that you like is general
OK. I would suggest that you use short-length files. Timing can be a problem with
events where the program has no expectation of waiting for a lengthy sound file
to finish playing. 

HTH,

Paul