Re: nautilus audio preview - mouse hover

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Nick Kloski wrote:

> I just installed RedHat8, and for some reason, I cannot get the audio
> preview to work within Nautilus.  I want the functionality back that I
> had in RH7.2 where I could hover my mouse over a music icon and the
> music would automatically play, as long as I held my mouse there.  Here
> are my specs:
> 
> Nautilus 2.0.6
> RedHat 8
> I have installed mpg123 and ogg123
> I have installed the vorbis-tools package
> 
> ...I have no problems playing music files from the command line, either
> .mp3 or .ogg, but it is just within Nautilus...
> 
> I have the the audio preview to "always" within Nautilus, and all of the
> files I have are local on my only harddrive.  Any help/ideas?

You have to enable esd. Use gconf-editor to set 
/desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd to TRUE.

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