[25701] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.3.6: Sound Effects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Wed Jun 16 08:42:34 2004
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:37:25 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 08:42:20 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@mit.edu>
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Well, the sounds seem gone, but now I am getting inn my console file:
08:38 child subprocess can't exec: No such file or directory
08:38 child subprocess can't exec: No such file or directory
apparently for each sound that should have happened. Any idea what I
did and how I can fix it?
Thanks.
Roger
> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 15:55, Roger A. Roach wrote:
> > Iwas pleased to hear some new sound effects when opening and
> > closing windows. I was curious to see how to change them and
> > went to the Sound Preferences panel.
>
> These sounds are actually coming from the window manager, Sawfish, not
> from the GNOME subsystem. (That's a distinction which may eventually
> disappear. The window manager we use by default isn't the same as the
> one modern GNOME uses, and I'm not sure how window sound events work in
> modern GNOME.) To configure them, you can either go to the "Windows"
> preferences panel and use the "< >" buttons to scroll over to the sound
> tab, or you can middle-click in the root window and select "Customize ->
> Sounds".
>
> The sounds should be off by default, but you're the second person to
> notice that they appeared in the 9.3 release on Suns, which I find a
> little curious.
>
