Re: three open issues for gnome

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 27 Apr 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> 1) Sound
> 
> Many programs make sounds.  It could be just audio-feedback (which is
> already nice) but also of course a/v viewers and so forth.  But alas,
> of course, this doesn't work for applications being run via a remote X
> server set up with ssh -X.

You need to set up esound correctly to make this work. There are some 
security-ish reasons why it isn't the default.

Basically it should mainly involve having esd talk tcpip on the server
end. You'll have to do some hunting to find the details.

-- Elliot
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