On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:51 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: <snip> > > I don't know what Pidgin uses, but spitting out alert sounds using > > paplay is unlikely to work well at all. > > Why not? Small processes working together is the Unix way. But people > seem to have forgotten that. Because paplay doesn't know it's playing a sound event, music, or audio from a softphone. I also gave the work-around to avoid the change of volume with flat-volumes enabled. > Pidgin doesn't exactly have low latency requirements. > > > You need to set the > > "PULSE_PROP_media.role=event" envvar before launching paplay. Otherwise > > it thinks paplay is a normal, say, music application and will change the > > volumes. > > > > That's a good use of your patch action: port Pidgin to use libcanberra. > > How about a command line interface to libcanberra? PULSE_PROP_media.role=event paplay -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
