Re: sounds

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

On 16/07/04 12:59:59 PM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Le 16.07.2004 20:38:01, Andreas J. Guelzow a écrit :
> > On 16/07/04 10:05:29 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > > Le 16.07.2004 16:57:41, Andreas J. Guelzow a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am new to balsa and am utterly annoyed by the `Oh my god, You  
> > > > have mail...' sound track. I am not able to find a place where I  
> > > > can change or disable that sound effect. In the general sound  
> > > > preferences there is only a program startup item for Balsa.
> > >
> > > herher ..
> > >
> > > /usr/share/sounds/balsa/newmail.wav .. depending of your  
> > > installtion path ...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > thanks but that does not seem to help me.
> >
> > First of all it seems strange that changing the new-mail sound file  
> > path in the sound preferences (EMail section) does not affect the  
> > sound used and that there is no preference in the Balsa section of  
> > the sound preferences.
> >
> > Using your info I thought I could just replace that file with a  
> > different sound file, but this does not do anything. THe original  
> > sound is still played.
> >
> > So now I have
> >
> > aguelzow steiner:/usr/share/sounds/balsa$ ls -l
> > total 104
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        25102 2004-04-29 00:11 newmail- 
> > orig.wav
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 2004-07-16 10:44 newmail. 
> > wav -> /usr/share/sounds/email.wav
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        71198 2004-04-29 00:11 startup. 
> > wav
> >
> > but I still hear newmail-orig.wav rather than newmail.wav.
> >
> > > > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > This is still true
>
> I remarked I've to restart the X server before the modification is  
> applied ....

Thank you very much, that did the job.

Andreas
>

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