[Xastir] Audio Alarms - How?

Curt Mills archer at eskimo.com
Sat Nov 11 14:32:12 EST 2006


On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> Xastir looks for /usr/bin/play.  I believe that if you install sox, it will
> provide this.  If don't have play, but do have /usr/bin/aplay, a symbolic link
> will work.  Possibly  other sound playing commands will work with a symlink to
> /usr/bin/play.

Actually you just need to find ANY audio player that will work from
the command line, figure out the syntax, and then put it into the
Configure->Audio Alarms box, including the path to the executable.
No symlink required.

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