On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 22:27 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Alan Coopersmith > <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > > > > Actually, there are some things in /usr/dt that Sun wrote and which are > > unencumbered by third party licenses (look especially at the tools whose > > names started with sdt instead of dt, since those were Sun extensions). > > > > Whether or not any of those are useful to retain is an open question - > > for instance the power management projects in progress are likely to > > produce a new GUI that controls the new functionality they provide > > instead of continuing to use the old dtpower GUI that Sun created. > > Presumably that would appear before dtpower goes away? > > (And where does sys-suspend fit in?) > > > And I'm sure few will mourn the loss of sdtaudiocontrol, a program > > that takes longer to start the JVM than most users spend running it > > once it's open. > > Hm. I agree that it's poor - what's the best alternative? > > (Especially for people not running gnome or gnome-like > desktops, who need a standalone audio control tool.)
Assuming one is using OpenSound (IIRC is going to become the default sound api in future), you can always use ossxmix. As ugly as it maybe, it works fairly well. Matthew
