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
