Re: ESD click problem
Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> 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
That is almost what I'm looking for, but In my case it doesn't
do the trick, as I am using gdm for logging in. When I log out
of Gnome, I get back to the gdm login prompter, and the script
you mentioned doesn't get run. Is there a corresponding script
for gdm that I could put the magic line into?
--
Best regards,
Peter Hugosson-Miller
"Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"
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