starting esound as part of session

[Jannis Pohlmann]

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.

- Jannis