Re: Am I missing something, or are these "features"? ;)

[PQBON <sdeutsch ece ucdavis edu>]

Gnome and Enlightenment use a Deamon called 
ESound. Esound owns the the sound device while running. To use most
porgrams run them as:

esddsp <program name>





On 25 Mar, Duncan Rose banged into a keyboard:
> Just downloaded gnome (including the updated RPMs), and it's
> a big improvement on the 0.x versions!
> 
> Up to now, I've tried KDE and Gnome, on and off, and always
> went back to my stock X + WM configuration, but I will stick
> with Gnome now...
> 
> However.. ;)
> 
> When I first set up Gnome I thought it'd be fun to play with
> the sounds, so I set both gnome and the windowmanager (enlightenment)
> to use sound. Unfortunately, one of these seems to have 
> opened the sound device(s?), and kept them open.
> 
> I've since turned off the multimedia functions in Gnome, and in
> the wm, AND I've restarted X/Gnome, but none of my other apps
> can access the sound (can't open /dev/dsp, or /dev/audio).
> Any ideas?
> 
> Also, I have a 3x2 desktop, and the panel no longer shows either
> the mini-virtual desktop thingy, or any of my applications that
> are running as buttons. I guess these are connected -- I can
> live without the virtual desktop do-dah, but not being able to
> minimise my windows without losing them altogether is _very_
> annoying.
> 
> Finally (bet you thought you'd never get to the end!), a question
> about enlightenment (probably not the best place to ask, but
> since I'm in a questioning mood...) themes. The enlightenment
> rpm I installed has themes BrushedMetal-Tigert, Clean,
> ShinyMetal and icE (under the /usr/share/enlightenment/themes
> dir), but the e-conf tool only shows the first three. I don't
> start enlightenment (gnome-session does it for me), so how do
> I either get enlightenment to "see" all the themes in this dir,
> or pass parameters to enlightenment on start up (I was thinking
> specifically of the -theme parameter...)?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 	-Duncan
> 
> 
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