Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@oplink.net>]

* Tyler MacDonald <tyler@yi.org> [071009 21:14]:
> Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> wrote:
> > I haven't used it, but the following app (on a sid box) sounds like it fits
> > the criteria:
> > 
> >   $ apt-cache search timer
> >   ...
> >   timer-applet - timer applet - a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel
> 
>    ... we have a winner! ;-) The only thing it doesn't do, which i'd like,
> is run a custom command, but for a simple timer app, it does the job well,
> and looks great while doing it.


So what is the key to getting sound out of the applet?  I am running
"testing" on an i386, with ALSA installed.  Sound works fine with
websites, with alsaplayer, and with the sox "play" command -- but not
with "timer-applet".

RLH