On Monday 26 February 2007 22:36, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Montag, 26. Februar 2007, Mick wrote: > > On Monday 26 February 2007 22:02, b.n. wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > > > > On Sunday 25 February 2007, Mick wrote: > > > >> Hi All, > > > >> > > > >> It seems that when Amarok is playing, all system sounds are put on > > > >> hold. Once I close Amarok then all system (KDE) notifications > > > >> suddenly sound at once! > > > >> > > > >> How do I figure out what's wrong and how should I fix it? > > > > > > > > One word: > > > > > > > > arts > > > > > > > > It's an abomination that should not be suffered to live. Disable it, > > > > switch it off, consign it to hell for all eternity. > > > > > > You can also compile all of kde switching off the "alsa" use flag. > > > > Did you mean to say "arts"? I thought that this was required to be able > > to play KDE system notifications? > > no, arts is not required to be able to play the KDE notifications. > > > Since aplay is hard masked, what external player should I use? What > > other options are there to be able to play system notifications, if I > > want to keep alsa? > > sox? How am I supposed to specify sox? /usr/bin/sox doesn't play any sound. :( -- Regards, Mick