Sound and X from remote computers

[Jens Hjalmarsson <jens se linux org>]

Hello,

I am searching for information regarding the possibility to make GNOME
send it's sound to a sound server on a remote machine (when someone on
that remote machine logs into a server, with X).

Since GNOME comes with esd, I was trying to get it to work remotely, but
no luck yet. I made a very small patch (I am no developer, but I do know a
tiny bit C) for Enlightenment, which actually worked (amazingly enough),
but the same thing for GNOME seems to fail.

The source (gnome-libs/-1.2.9/libgnome/gnome-sound.c) contains
gnome_sound_connection = esd_open_sound (esound_hostname);
which means that this should work, and I tried putting this line above
esound_hostname = getenv("ESPEAKER");

Should this be enough? Is there a place where you actually can tell it to
use the ESPEAKER variable (which is standard for the apps that come with
esound)?

Jens