[CS-FSLUG] Re: Firefox sound problem...It was aRts!

[timbrown at ichristian.com]

Ed Hurst writes:

> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, David M wrote: 
> 
>> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 5:30 am, timbrown at ichristian.com wrote:
>>> Thanks Alvin...That did it! now if I can only remember why or when I 
>>> turned
>>> on Arts!
>> 
>> I was following this thread because I'm having the same problem. I tried
>> switching to the OSS sound system, but that didn't help my problem with
>> firefox.
> 
> Okay, maybe I'm really missing something obvious, so bear with me. I am
> hardly an expert compared to others on this list and I've been
> hesitant to comment on this thread. 
> 
> Arts will hog the sound system; it's never played nice with others,
> unlike, say esound. It will drop it's control after an interval set by
> the user somewhere in the config menus of Control Center. Default is 5
> seconds, IIRC. For any app to get a piece of the sound system, it has
> be launced under the 'artsdsp $APP' formula. This was a big deal
> discussed much back when RealPlayer became a common part of distros
> that made use of KDE2. People were advised to edit the menus and icon
> properties to launch every sound-using app with that formula. 
> 
> Only recently has KDE allowed you to choose another sound server
> besides aRTs, but then too many KDE apps won't do sound. I've read some
> technical stuff way over my head explaining how wonderful aRTs' design
> concept was, but I'm not impressed. 
> 
> Given that my own computer sound-system woes are so frequent, and KDE
> so hideously buggy when I use it, I've not spent much time with either
> lately. :-) 
> 

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gives me problems, Gnome still works. But Gnome is just a little to 
"spartan" for my liking I guess. I have to go back to double clicking on my 
desktop, etc.
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