christophe barbé wrote: > Le jeu, 27 sep 2001 11:11:28, Peter Hugosson-Miller a écrit : > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > That is almost what I'm looking for, but In my case it doesn't > > do the trick, as I am using gdm for logging in. When I log out > > of Gnome, I get back to the gdm login prompter, and the script > > you mentioned doesn't get run. Is there a corresponding script > > for gdm that I could put the magic line into? > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > Peter Hugosson-Miller > > "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!" > > You can perhaps add 'killall esd' in a PreSession script. > In fact, Gdm uses an initV kind of startup scripts. > > /etc/gdm/PreSession > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default > /etc/gdm/PostSession > /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default > > Christophe
Thanks, Christophe, that's the one! I added just one line: killall esd to the end of the file /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default, which solved all my problems. -- Best regards, Peter Hugosson-Miller "Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!"
