[Xastir] audio alarms

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Massimo Corinaldesi wrote:

> 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.

Typing "which noatun" on my system (SuSE) yields:

    /opt/kde3/bin/noatun

Typing "which amarok" yields nothing, so I don't have that
installed.  Now, typing:

    cd /usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
    ls

Nothing shows.  That means I don't have any Xastir audio files
installed.  Went and snagged xastir-sounds.tgz from sourceforge.
Extracted the files and put them into
/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds.  Made sure permissions on the
directory and files are such that all users can read them.  Now this
should work.

    cd /usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
    /opt/kde3/bin/noatun bandopen.wav

Should result in audio being played.  Check your mixer settings to
make sure your volume is set properly.

Put this into the configuration dialog:

    /opt/kde3/bin/noatun

On my systems I have "/usr/bin/play" instead.  I don't have an audio
output device to test it with at present to make sure the current
Xastir does audio properly.  Can someone else shed some light on
this?

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