No, way too much latency! #!/bin/bash while [ 0 ]; do read -p "" mplayer tick.wav done I wonder if it is due to PulseAudio, Mplayer, or what else. I'm not about to install jack for this, though. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.