Re: gnome - without screensaver and system sounds ?

[Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1 burntmail com>]

Ka Hay wrote:
> Hi everybody !
> I found how charming a Gnome desktop can be.
> The only two things that bother me are very simple and stupid, Yet I can
> not fix 'em.
> 1 - I do not have system beep and system sounds. I do play .wav files
> and almost all other media types.
> 2 - I do not know how to make my gnome-screensaver use the
> Xscreensaver's screensavers. I have only " flying feet", which are ..
> not very interesting.
>
>
> I am running Gentoo linux with a 2.6.23 kernel.

You'd probably be better off on the Gentoo forums than on this general 
Gnome list.  This question comes up regularly there.  Set the "esd" USE 
flag, then re-emerge gnome.

--
Guy Rouillier