[SOLVED] Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-26 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >> OK. My crontab has this: > >> > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > >> At the minute, no sound. I tried > >> id=$(id -u) > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> and > >> id=1000 > >> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$id > >> > >> and no dice. I tried

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-25 Thread Greg
On 2025-01-24, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a >> Microsoft-ism >> here. >> >> (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) > > "We live in interesting times, where the only thing to fear, is the > government" > >:-< > > "Just bec

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2025 04:58, Roger Price wrote: That works for me too, but not in cron. Have you considered systemd.timer(5) in *user* session instead of cron job? It should alleviate issues with missed environment variables. There was a thread with discussion how to execute a process in user sessi

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 11:34, Will Mengarini wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird thin

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 09:12:38PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > > Microsoft-ism > > > here. > > > > >

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Will Mengarini
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find >> which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent >> to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a >> weird thing, that makes me wonder whether

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 5:05 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > > > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > > here. > > > > (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) > > > > Ah, yes. > > "We live in inter

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
user/$(id -u)" >>> >>> and runs >>> >>> M H * * * aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav >>> >>> where M is the minute 0-59 and H is the hour 0-23. I shall do exactly the >>> same. Roger >> >> OK. My crontab has th

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a Microsoft-ism here. (Or maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) ) Ah, yes. "We live in interesting times, where the only thing to fear, is the government" :-< "Just becau

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 17:36:54 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > OK. My crontab has this: > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > # m h dom mon dow command > * * 24 1 * aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > At the minute, no sound. I tried &g

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary > > personal > > cron job with crontab -e which sets > > > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > > > > and runs > >

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I suspect it's coincidental / benign or a joke, given that it's a > Microsoft-ism > here. On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: > "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pine

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 16:58, Roger Price wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >>> Maybe a difference in some software? I ran >>> eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay >>> /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav >&

List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which > country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing list, > for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird thing, that makes me wonder > whether

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9353EFF803 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:58:09 + (UTC) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:58:08 +0100 (CET) From: Roger Price To: debian-user Mailing List Subject: Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked In-Reply-To: <20250124191708.gc29...@wooledge.org>

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit,

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 05:58, Roger Price wrote: On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: Maybe a difference in some software? I ran eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > Maybe a difference in some software? I ran > > eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay > > /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav > > Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.w

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
to bark.sh, but this also failed to solve the problem. Roger Maybe a difference in some software? I ran eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav Playing WAVE '/export/media/sounds/woow1.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 11025 Hz, Mono and

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > > > So then the question is *which* environment variable it is. I would > > suspect it's one of the XDG_ variables, > > I did it the other way, by

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > hobbit:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little > Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono > hobb

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
s. Nonetheless, I note the following: 1) I do not have any environment variables with PULSE in them. 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: hobbit:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little En

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Dan Ritter wrote: > OK, PulseAudio takes over ALSA, and from then on, only sessions > with PA active can play sounds. That means that your shell can > do it, but your cron can't. > > Add this to your cron invocation or bark.sh. > > export PULSE_RU

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Dan Ritter
rprice@maria ~ aplay -v ~/bark/h5.au > ALSA <-> PulseAudio PCM I/O Plugin > > > I would guess that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio, > > and after that PA has disabled OSS. > > > > After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds? > > Yes and no. Ye

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
s that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio, > and after that PA has disabled OSS. > > After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds? Yes and no. Yes - I can manually run aplay and hear the sound. No - a cron job cannot use aplay and gets the error message: From: Cron D

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Dan Ritter
play the .au file? OSS, ALSA, or something else? I would guess that VLC is triggering the start of PulseAudio, and after that PA has disabled OSS. After VLC runs, does aplay work to play sounds? -dsr-

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: > Is there some way of restoring system sound, short of rebooting ? I need to be more precise, It's the cron job which is blocked, manual operation still works correctly: rprice@maria ~ /usr/local/bin/bark.sh 5 bark.sh starts ... XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/u

Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Roger Price
Before running VLC I hear system sounds, e.g. a cron job has Biff barking each hour. If I then play a music mp4 with VLC, I hear the music, but when the music stops I no longer hear Biff. VLC inhibits system sounds, and leaves the inhibition in place. VLC -> Tools -> Preferences -&

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-23 Thread eben
On 10/22/24 23:24, Will Mengarini wrote: * e...@gmx.us [24-10/22=Tue 11:06 -0400]: On 10/18/24 21:14, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Another issue is that some newer motherboards might not even have the beeper physically installed. There is that. Fortunately you can buy them cheaply. Well, tiny

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-23 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 23-10-2024 at 14:24 Will Mengarini wrote: > * e...@gmx.us [24-10/22=Tue 11:06 -0400]: > > On 10/18/24 21:14, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> Another issue is that some newer motherboards might not even have the > >> beeper physically installed. > > > > There is that. Fortunately yo

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-22 Thread Felix Miata
Will Mengarini composed on 2024-10-22 20:24 (UTC-0700): > * e...@gmx.us [24-10/22=Tue 11:06 -0400]: >> Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >>> Another issue is that some newer motherboards might not even have the >>> beeper physically installed. >> There is that. Fortunately you can buy them >> cheaply.

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-22 Thread Will Mengarini
* e...@gmx.us [24-10/22=Tue 11:06 -0400]: > On 10/18/24 21:14, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> Another issue is that some newer motherboards might not even have the >> beeper physically installed. > > There is that. Fortunately you can buy them > cheaply. Well, tiny piezo things that do the job. Th

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-22 Thread eben
On 10/18/24 21:14, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: The terminal may cause the system to beep, or it may flash, or it may do nothing at all. My configuration of gnome-terminal makes an audible beep, but it's not the same pitch as the actual consol

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:26:02 + fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: Hello fxkl4...@protonmail.com, >i've never been able to get speech dispatcher to say anything >understandable I decided to have a play with speech dispatcher, just for fun. After I installed it, and entered the command string Arb

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread fxkl47BF
On Sat, 19 Oct 2024, Arbol One wrote: > > Try this, it's so much fun!! > > sleep 1; spd-say I; sleep 0.5; spd-say am; sleep 1; spd-say finished > i've never been able to get speech dispatcher to say anything understandable

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 15:05:31 -0700, Larry Martell wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM Arbol One wrote: >> > >> > Hello everyone. >> > >> > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep >> > sound after completing a shell script. >> >> Way

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/10/2024 20:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: So, in conclusion, I really don't understand*nearly* enough about what's happening here. Do not forget about udev + systemd-logind uaccess feature that removes and adds ACLs to audio devices to the active user on VT switching. You may use "ps auxfw"

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread Arbol One
Try this, it's so much fun!! sleep 1; spd-say I; sleep 0.5; spd-say am; sleep 1; spd-say finished On 2024-10-18 10:02 p.m., Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: Hello everyone. Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
I was curious too: > > # runuser --user notloggedinnotrootuser -- bash -lic 'aplay > /usr/share/sounds/sound-icons/prompt.wav' > > aplay: main:831: audio open error: Host is down > > I guess you have to be logged in as yourself, using your own user > account, th

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 14:20 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 13:58:56 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > When logged in as root, the following worked for me using a local user account (e.g. not the root user): > > > > # runuser --user notroot -- bash -lic &#x

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 13:58:56 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > When logged in as root, the following worked for me using a local user > account (e.g. not the root user): > > # runuser --user notroot -- bash -lic 'aplay > /usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav' Huh,

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread George at Clug
how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > > > sound after completing a shell script. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > Instead of a plain beep you can play an mp3 instead. > > > > sudo apt install alsaplayer-text > > > >

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread George at Clug
script. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Instead of a plain beep you can play an mp3 instead. > > sudo apt install alsaplayer-text > > alsaplayer "/Path/To/Mp3" I tested this with user account: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav But did not work for roo

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > sound after completing a shell script. > Thanks in advance. > Instead of a plain beep you can play an mp3 instead. sudo apt install alsaplayer-text als

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 13:08 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > > > Hello everyone. > > > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > > sound after completing a shell script. > > Thanks in advance. > > > I googled

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > sound after completing a shell script. > Thanks in advance. > I googled around and found: - tput bel: This command uses the tput utility to send the

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > >> Hello everyone. >> >> Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep >> sound after completing a shell script. >> Tha

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > sound after completing a shell script. > Thanks in advance. > I would also like to know how to do that. If you figure it out please post it to the list.

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The more-portable version of this is printf '\a'. > > The issue, though, is that what the terminal *does* with this \007 > byte depends on a truly formidable number of different settings and > layers. The terminal may cause the system to be

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 15:05:31 -0700, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM Arbol One wrote: > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound > > after completing a shell script. > > Way back in the day I used to do th

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM Arbol One wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound > after completing a shell script. Way back in the day I used to do this: echo '^G'

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Boyan Penkov
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/beep ``` ./my_thing.sh && beep ``` is the first-level thing to do... Cheers! On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM Arbol One wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound > after completing a shell scr

beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Arbol One
Hello everyone. Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound after completing a shell script. Thanks in advance. -- */ArbolOne ™/* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of students and volunteers dedicated to providing free services to charitable

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-22 Thread Roger Price
On Thu, 21 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: Roger Price writes: Command cat /sys/devices/cpu/caps/pmu_name reports: westmere I should have said also that command inxi -Fix reports MCP arch: Nehalem, which is specified in more detail by the reference E5645 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-21 Thread Dekks Herton
Roger Price writes: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: >> What kernel is 11 running? are you using a Haswell or Broadwell CPU? > > Command inxi reports: > System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-15-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 > Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullse

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-18 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: What kernel is 11 running? are you using a Haswell or Broadwell CPU? Command inxi reports: System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-15-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Desktop S

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-18 Thread Dekks Herton
Roger Price writes: > This ran for years with Debian 9. I upgrade to Debian 11 and hear > nothing. The usual advice is > (a) in /etc/crontab export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > (b) play the sound from a script. > > But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list > have

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound [Solved]

2022-07-17 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, 16 Jul 2022, Lee wrote: Nope. Audio has always just worked; I never had to do anything special or extra to get it working Following https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio/Examples , I installed file ~/.config/pulse/default.pa .include /etc/pulse/default.pa set-

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-17 Thread Roger Price
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, Lee wrote: On 7/17/22, The Wanderer wrote: I don't use cron to play sounds, so I can't speak to this directly, but... While this may turn out in the end to be pure FUD, when I hear about things which work properly when run by hand but not when run automati

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-17 Thread Dan Ritter
rontab -l | tail -3 > > # m h dom mon dow command > > * * * * */home/lee/bin/neener.sh > > > > ## which plays a .wav and an .au file > > > > $ cat ~/bin/neener.sh > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/Old/NEENER.WAV > > sleep 0.25 >

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-17 Thread Lee
o Debian 11 and hear nothing. >> The >> usual advice is >> (a) in /etc/crontab export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 >> (b) play the sound from a script. >> >> But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list have >> sound >> coming from

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
_DIR=/run/user/1000 > (b) play the sound from a script. > > But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list have sound > coming from a Debian 11 cron job? If so, how is it done? I don't use cron to play sounds, so I can't speak to this directly,

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-17 Thread Lee
crontab -l | tail -3 >> # m h dom mon dow command >> * * * * */home/lee/bin/neener.sh >> >> ## which plays a .wav and an .au file >> >> $ cat ~/bin/neener.sh >> #!/bin/sh >> /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/Old/NEENER.WAV >> sleep 0.25 >&g

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-16 Thread Roger Price
ays a .wav and an .au file $ cat ~/bin/neener.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/Old/NEENER.WAV sleep 0.25 /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/SunOS/busy.au I get the following error message from aplay: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1075:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:830:

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-16 Thread Lee
someone else is logged in. ## run the script every minute $ crontab -l | tail -3 # m h dom mon dow command * * * * */home/lee/bin/neener.sh ## which plays a .wav and an .au file $ cat ~/bin/neener.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/Old/NEENER.WAV sleep 0.25 /usr/bin/aplay -q $HOME/Sounds/SunOS/busy.au Lee

Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-16 Thread Roger Price
People occasionally have a cron job emit some sound each hour. On my Debian 9 machine I hear Biff [1] barking. In /etc/crontab I have an entry to call a script bark.sh which does the barking. Typically 0,1 0,12 * * * rprice full-path-to/bark.sh 12 2>>&1 where bark.sh is a Bash script which c

Re: Sounds disappeared

2021-11-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 02:49:36AM +0200, Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Hi again. > Upgraded to Bullseye in hope it will give me sound. > BR, > Gunnar G. > (PS. > Mal apropos: > System refused let me save replacements in sources.list: > > deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main

Sounds

2021-11-20 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hi gals & guys, sounds are back! Gunnar

Sounds disappeared

2021-11-20 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Hi again. Upgraded to Bullseye in hope it will give me sound. BR, Gunnar G. (PS. Mal apropos: System refused let me save replacements in sources.list: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main So the t

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/9/16, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/06/2016 05:13 PM, Lucio Crusca wrote: >> >> Il 05/04/2016 13:34, Liam O'Toole ha scritto: >>> I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all >>> KDE applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a >>> knotifyrc file somewh

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/06/2016 05:13 PM, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > Il 05/04/2016 13:34, Liam O'Toole ha scritto: >> I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all >> KDE applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a >> knotifyrc file somewhere on your system? See the "second

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-06 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 05/04/2016 13:34, Liam O'Toole ha scritto: I'm not using KDE at the moment, but my experience of it is that all KDE applications store their configuration in text files. Is there a knotifyrc file somewhere on your system? See the "second way" in the following link: http://ubuntuforums.org/s

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-05 Thread Liam O'Toole
the suggestion, a > > # chmod o-r /usr/share/sounds/KDE* > > worked on stretch/sid too. Since this seems to be a needed and missing > feature, I've opened a whishlist bug upstream: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=361400 I'm not using KDE at the moment,

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-05 Thread Lucio Crusca
Il 04/04/2016 20:44, Ralph Katz ha scritto: You could do something similar, or change permissions, for the whole kde sound file directory. A more proper method may exist, but simple works fine. Thanks for the suggestion, a # chmod o-r /usr/share/sounds/KDE* worked on stretch/sid too

Re: Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-04 Thread Ralph Katz
it. I'm on > a up-to-date stretch/sid amd64. When playing konquest, for example, each > time a dialog pops up, knotify plays a sound regardless of my sound > volume settings (worse, it raises the sound volume). ... > How do I tell KDE apps to avoid playing sounds on notificatio

Disable knotify sounds using xfce

2016-04-02 Thread Lucio Crusca
w it shows does not include icons to manage sound settings anymore. It only contains three icons: shortcuts under Workspace section and Settings + Connectivity under Network section. Needless to say, they aren't what I need. How do I tell KDE apps to avoid playing sounds on notifications?

Re: Sounds good -- geary email client

2013-05-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 04 May 2013, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:41:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >> I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, > >> instead of me having to switch to a different workspace where > >> google-chrome is running all the time. Would Thunderbird o

Sounds good -- geary email client

2013-05-03 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:41:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, instead >> of me having to switch to a different workspace where google-chrome is >> running all the time. Would Thunderbird or similar do that? I've >> never used it, so I

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-22 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Chris, Excerpt from Chris Bannister: -- -- > /usr/share/doc/volumeicon-alsa/ > > which should help. > > The "dpkg -L volumeicon-alsa" command should also list any man pages. > > Sometimes there is a separate "doc" package. > > Sometimes you have to hunt out how to use the package fro

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 09:31:54AM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Yes, of course - but there are the same volume levels as I get with volume > icon. Weird. And you have ruled out a hardware problem? (By using a live CD or something similar.) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have y

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-22 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Yes, of course - but there are the same volume levels as I get with volume icon. 2013/4/21 Chris Bannister > On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:14:59PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > > I use Gnome 2 WM and I get the volume adjust icon on my panel but - as > I > > > wrote before - its already in maxi

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 07:14:59PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > > I use Gnome 2 WM and I get the volume adjust icon on my panel but - as I > > wrote before - its already in maximized volume but there is not enough > > always. Have you tried running: # alsamixer as root, and checking the levels?

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
gt;> Hi, >> >> I think when I maximize all sound levels in alsamixer I get more >> less >> volume than I need. >> >> For example I wish to see movies on Youtube and maximize volume >> there >>

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Wayne Topa
. For example I wish to see movies on Youtube and maximize volume there too the sounds of movie are too low for hearing. How to solve this? I solved that here by installing the volumeicon-alsa package. HTH -- Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 04:26:01PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > And what to do after installed this package? [volumeicon-alsa] Without installing it myself, (as I've never had any trouble with volume): If you install a package and once it is installed you have no idea what to do afterwards, I

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Doug
On 04/21/2013 03:57 AM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Hi, I think when I maximize all sound levels in alsamixer I get more less volume than I need. For example I wish to see movies on Youtube and maximize volume there too the sounds of movie are too low for hearing. How to solve this? You

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
ovies on Youtube and maximize volume there >> too the sounds of movie are too low for hearing. >> >> How to solve this? >> > > I solved that here by installing the volumeicon-alsa package. > > HTH > -- > > Wayne > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/21/2013 03:57 AM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Hi, I think when I maximize all sound levels in alsamixer I get more less volume than I need. For example I wish to see movies on Youtube and maximize volume there too the sounds of movie are too low for hearing. How to solve this? I solved

Alsa sounds too low

2013-04-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, I think when I maximize all sound levels in alsamixer I get more less volume than I need. For example I wish to see movies on Youtube and maximize volume there too the sounds of movie are too low for hearing. How to solve this?

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-18 Thread Alberto Luaces
Christopher Judd writes: > On Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:03:59 Alberto Luaces wrote: >> Alberto Luaces writes: >> > Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues >> >> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-17 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:03:59 Alberto Luaces wrote: > Alberto Luaces writes: > > Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues > >> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play > >> any sound. Often

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues >> with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play >> any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its >> related). > > Since

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-17 Thread Alberto Luaces
Grześ Andruszkiewicz writes: > Hi, > > I am running (up to date) Debian Testing and recently I have issues > with Amarok, Kaffeine and all Xine based players - they fail to play > any sound. Often these apps crash on exit (I am not sure if its > related). Since the last amarok update, I also have

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
'/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file > or directory > Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: > Cannot access autospawn lock. > > MPlayer based players work fine, system sounds in KDE are fine either. > How can I fix it? > > Ch

Re: Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-14 Thread Brad Alexander
lseaudio[1105]: [pulseaudio] authkey.c: Failed > to load authorization key '/etc/timidity/.pulse-cookie': No such file > or directory > Jan 14 14:53:52 grzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: > Cannot access autospawn lock. > > MPlayer based players work fine

Kaffeine and Amarok don't play any sounds and crash

2012-01-14 Thread Grześ Andruszkiewicz
rzes pulseaudio[1105]: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. MPlayer based players work fine, system sounds in KDE are fine either. How can I fix it? Cheers, Grzes A crash report from Amarok: Application: Amarok (amarok), signal: Segmentation fault *__GI___poll (fds=0xbff788d8, nf

How to let Alsa actually mix the PC speaker beep with other sounds?

2011-08-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
press backspace) using alsamixer, as I have a control called ‘Beep’ there. If I set a volume level unequal zero and unmute that control, it will play a high-pitched, acceptable sound every time I press backspace. Disabling the control will play a lower-frequency, louder sound. I like both sounds and

[Posted to Debian-OT] A Little Cacophony of Sounds [Long-ish]

2011-03-04 Thread Freeman
Posted to d-community-offtopic Subject: A Little Cacophony of Sounds [Long-ish] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-offtopic/2011-March/71.html -- Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Stephen Powell
e steps >> there, you should be able to get system sounds and regular >> alsa sounds working. The fact that you are using OSS is a complication, >> but there are drivers that will redirect the OSS interface to the >> alsa interface and allow it all to work. The web page is vali

Re: Since I've installed esound, no more sound from music, videos, etc., but I can now hear system's sounds!

2010-08-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:09:03 -0400 (EDT), Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> I just disabled system sounds, re-loginned, and music works. But system >> sounds won't work. Normal, then. But why should I have to disable ESD? >> > > All of t

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