[kde-linux] Problem with arts

Norberto Bensa nbensa at gmx.net
Mon Oct 16 16:41:08 UTC 2006


Hello Jacek,

just don't use arts. It's old. Buggy. Never really maintained after KDE 3.0.

If you want sounds in KDE, go to Control Center -> Sound & Multimedia -> 
System Notifications -> Player Settings -> Use an external player -> [Choose 
your favorite all-formats-player]

Jacek Jablonski wrote:
> Hi!
> When Kde is going to play the sound with arts, the whole system just
> hangs for 1,5 seconds. Then sound plays, and everything backs to
> normal. And it happens every time, the sound is going to be played.
> When in kcontrol I turn off option to run arts with highest possible
> priority, there is no hang, but sound plays with 2 seconds delay.
> artsplay somesound gives:
> ***
> Can't connect to sound server
> ***
> How to solve this problem without arts uninstallation?
> Kde ver.: 3.5.5 and 5.5.4
>
> Greetings,
> JJ
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Norberto Bensa
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