Hi Jan, on Sunday, 2006-05-28 at 19:03:22, you wrote: > Maybe use 'arts' if you are using KDE or try to find out what 'esd' is > when you are using gnome. I don't know if and how both can be used when > you are not using one of those desktop environments.. AFAIK, both can. However, with one of the most frequent Alan Cox quotes being that his "views on ESD are mostly unprintable", this doesn't sound like a good idea :) Don't ask me why, I haven't used it, but I guess it because of stuff like latencies and probably some CORBA mess. I'd like to add JACK to the list, it's written especially for ALSA and low-latency apps like music-production software. Also desktop-independent. cheers! Matthias -- I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665