starting esound as part of session

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Mon Oct 10 12:30:20 CEST 2005


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Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone schrieb:
> 
>>Jani Monoses wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Hello
>>>>
>>>>is there a way of having a system-wide setting for automaticaly starting 
>>>>esd and saving it as part of the session when the user logs out?
>>>>I am trying to make this work for the xubuntu project, so users don't 
>>>>have to start it manually or start gnome services.
>>
>>
>>IIRC, esd doesn't support session management, so you'll have to do this
>>outside the session manager.
>>
>>Assuming Xfce 4.2, edit $sysconfdir/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc, and add:
>>
>>esd &
>>
>>somewhere before xfce4-session starts.
>>
> 
> The GUI way would be to run xfce4-autostart-editor and add esd.

Which a) will only edit the autostart items for the current user, not
system-wide, and b) is only available in the as-yet-unreleased SVN trunk
version of xfce4-session, thus why I didn't mention it.

	-b

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