Re: [Evolution] No sound in Evolution - Fixed, thank you.

[Asa Jay Laughton <asajay laughton itron com>]

The wrapper method described herein, with code snippet, worked like a charm.  I had to modify paths to reflect my system, but the first time I fired up Evolution, the incoming mail sound worked.  Wow!

Okay, so, now, being ignorant in these things, could someone explain to me "why" this works?
And more specifically, if I run this as part of my x-session startup, will it cover more items, nut just Evolution?

Private responses are welcome, to keep list traffic down.

Thanks,
Asa Jay


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 13:01, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:


> On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:42, guenther wrote:
> > > it is very likely that the KDE sound daemon is blocking the GNOME sound
> > > daemon from playing sounds and so Evolution cannot play sounds.
> > 
> > Yeah, IIRC this in in the archives multiple times -- although some
> > months ago.
> > 
> > AFAIK you have to use the KDE sound wrapper to play the sound. Don't
> > remember the details...
>
> The way I do it is have my desktop icon/link execute a wrapper script
> /usr/local/bin/Evolution which looks like:
> -> cat /usr/local/bin/Evolution
> ##
> ## Deal with Sound
> ##
> #
> # For Arts wrapping
> #
> export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libartsdsp.so:/usr/lib/libartsc.so
>
> if [ ! `/sbin/pidof esd` ]
> then
>         esd -nobeeps -spawnfd 4 &
> fi
>
> ##
> ## End of Sound Stuff
> ##
>
> evolution $*
>
>
> --
> Lonnie Borntreger
>
>
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