[Xastir] audio alarms

[Massimo Corinaldesi]

I tried both with noatun and amarok, both with and without leading /usr/bin/.
They start into terminal, while from Xastir nothing happens, the player itself 
does not start at all.
I cannot understand where is the wrong thing.

                           Massimo

Alle 10:48, martedì 22 febbraio 2005, Curt Mills ha scritto:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:
> > Since some weeks, Xastir is no more able to notify via audio alarms. It
> > seems to me as Xastir cannot start the player, in my case noatun. My
> > system is mandrake 10.1.
> > I need some suggestions on how to "debug" the situation and try to
> > correct the problem.
>
> Best way is to get the player to play the sounds via the
> command-line, including the path to the executable and all
> command-line switches.  After you get that working from a shell, put
> the same exact command into Xastir's config box for audio alarms,
> again including the path.  For instance I have:
>
>     /usr/bin/aplay -q
>
> In mine, but I can't test right now because since I did an OS
> upgrade on this system I couldn't get audio working easily, and I
> haven't gone back to look at it.  It's an SuSE problem on this
> system, not an Xastir problem.

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