Re: [Q] esd vs nas + another question

[Richard Hult <rhult hem2 passagen se>]

>         One question: is esd the only way to get sound in gnome? Does it
> support other standardization attempts like NAS ? It seems that esd blindly
> grabs the audio device forever. Is it possible that it releases it after some
> idle time, in order to let gnome-unaware applications to still make sound
> natively ?

Yep =) 

esd -h gives:

-as SECS    free audio device after SECS of inactivity

>         Another question: what applications are supposed to be `swallow-able'
> in the panel ? I've tried to swallow an xeyes or xload process, out of
> curoisity, but all it does is resizing it to 48x48, putting an empty room in
> the panel, and displaying it as usual. Ah, anda ... the panel drops core from
> time to time ;-)

Are you running enlightenment? You can't swallow with e for the moment. I
don't know why...

Could you send a stack trace from the core file to the list when that
happens, with a description of what you were doing when it crashed? That
would help more than just say that it crashed ;)

Regards,
Richard