On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 02:51:03 -0400, Brian Sammon writes: >However, that hangs on the first "drip" if exmh is run in the background >because the "play" command wants stdin/stdout. Maybe a separate bug is in >order to "sox" to fix their /usr/lib/mime/packages/ file.
sox doesn't work as a background app unless you feed it an extra -q. the fact that sox doesn't behave in that situation is not a bug in exmh. this interoperability issue has been documented in exmh's NEWS.Debian (since 2014) but i just found that i made a packaging mistake and the news file wasn't shipped...grr. this will be fixed in the next upload. >My thinking is that /usr/bin/run-mailcap can't really be relied on to play >audiofiles in a way that makes sense for what exmh wants to do here, and >that exmh's default behavior should be to not attempt this (or find a >different way). run-mailcap is the only mechanism that i'm aware of that doesn't insist on a particular choice of sound application - but feel free to correct me there. the next version of the exmh package will ship with a default config that has audio disabled, and people will have to explicitly set their own sound player commands; i've also added example invocations to the help text on the audio preferences page. regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 0xB963BD5F + http://snafu.priv.at/ Fachbegriffe der Informatik, zukunftsfähiges Medium: Die Existenz von Pr0n heißt, daß ein Medium Zukunft hat. -- Felix von Leitner
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