[Evolution] evolution not respecting sound prefs?

["Eric T. Matsui" <ematsui uottawa ca>]

I could never get the calendar appointment reminder to play sound until 
today. And the solution I found is not a pretty one. There has got to be 
a better way to do this.

This is what I did: Killed the evolution-alarm-notify process and 
restarted it from the shell with the same exact command-line options as 
before with an addition of: --enable-sound.

That certainly did the magic, but I didn't like it. Here are some of my 
reasons:

* The most immediate one: It feels silly having to do this every time I 
login.
* Invoking evolution with --enable-sound (even after killev/oaf-slay) 
doesn't help.
* Although I don't know much about GNOME, I can't help thinking that 
turning the sound on in the Sound preferences should make the 
--enable-sound option unnecessary.
* I otherwise have no problem playing sounds on my linux. (GNOME sound 
events work fine, for example.)

I'm using evolution-1.2.2-4 that came with RH9. I've had this no-sound 
problem in the RH8 days, too, but I'm pretty sure the same fix would 
have worked, then, also.

Any information would be appreciated.

-Eric

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*Eric Matsui*
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
Canada K1N 8B6

<http://www.uottawa.ca>