Re: ESD click problem
On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 03:41, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> I never thought I'd be complaining when I finally got sound
> to work, but I guess I'm not so easy to please... there's a
> tiny problem with esd that I hope someone can help me with.
>
> I'm using Gnome as my desktop, and I have enabled sound for
> window events. It all works nicely except for this annoying
> "click" that accompanies each sound. I've investigated this
> and found that there is an esd option that makes the daemon
> shut down after 2 seconds of inactivity. The "click" is the
> sound of the daemon starting up again.
>
> I've increased the delay by various amounts, but found that
> in the end, having a short timeout is not desireable, since
> the esd startup click is just too annoying. I set the delay
> to 30 minutes, which kind of fixes the problem, but now the
> problem is replaced by a new one. If I log out, and my wife
> logs in inside of half an hour, her desktop can not connect
> to the sound daemon. The problem is that my esd instance is
> still running, she doesn't have authorization to use it, so
> she can't connect to it.
>
> I can use a virtual terminal to log in and kill the daemon,
> again solving the problem, but this is a bit messy. I can't
> kill it before I log out, because I have panel applets like
> the sound monitor which complain and then remove themselves
> from the panel if the daemon isn't running.
>
> The whole thing smacks of "there must be an easy way to fix
> this", as it seems whatever I do, just introduces a further
> complication.
>
> Six months ago I would have been glad to have problems like
> this! Now, it's starting to get old... Please help!
>
Put killall esd in your .bash_logout (or appropriate replacement) file.
--mike
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