Tom Wesley wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 Mar 2005 04:25, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:28:22 -0600
>>
>> Gabriel M. Bedding wrote:
>> > Tom Wesley wrote:
>> > > I've just installed KDE 3.4 from the monolithic ebuilds, using
>> > > USE='-arts' but
>> > > am not getting any sounds from KDE itself. Window minimise, kopete
>> > > incoming message sounds etc are all silent.
>> >
>> > Arts is the sound server for KDE. KDE sends all its sounds through
>> > Arts. If you don't have arts, then you don't have sound in KDE.
>> >
>> > Other applications that use ALSA / OSS directly will probably still
>> > work, but KDE applications should have no sound if arts is not
>> > installed and running.
>>
>> I don't believe thats necessarily true. You can turn off arts in kde and
>> run alsa or jack, so why shouldn't you be able to compile without arts
>> support.
>>
>
> This is what I was attempting. You can specify an "external player" for
> knotify, but it seems it just doesn't work. My PC spent the night
> installing arts, then rebuilding everything with the arts USE flag and all
> is well now. :-)
I'm curious... which external players did you try it with?
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