Network sound problem

Boyan Tabakov blade.alslayer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 07:20:43 BST 2007


On Tuesday 10 July 2007 22:35:09 Basil Fowler wrote:
> Thank you Kevin.
>
> The environment variable ESPEAKER is indeed missing.
>
> On followup question.
>
> How should I correct the situation? Should I modify "startkde"
> to check which display is operative, and then added the appropriate
> definition, or should I put it elsewhere?
>
> For info, the relevant part of .bashrc is :
>
> # If remote connection, set sound server parameters and xkbmap
> echo $DISPLAY | grep 'eccles' > /dev/null
>
> if [ $? -eq 0 ]
> then
>         export ESPEAKER=eccles:5001
>         export ARTS_SERVER=eccles:5100
>         setxkbmap fr -print | xkbcomp - $DISPLAY 2>/dev/null
> else
>         unset ESPEAKER
>         unset ARTS_SERVER
> fi
>
> (eccles is the name of the slave computer)
>
> I am a lurker rather more than a contributor, but I would like to express
> my thanks for all the work you do for this list.
>
> Basil
>

Hi,

You can save your script to the <kde base dir>/env (/opt/kde3/env on 
openSuSE). Though I am not sure if the DISPLAY variable would at all be set 
when KDE executes these scripts. But try it out.

Best regards.

-- 
Blade hails you...

Wounded is the deer that leaps highest
And my wound it cuts so deep
                           --Nightwish
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