Fluxbox startup with sound

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Fluxbox startup with sound
started by: ergun

Posted by ergun on Aug. 18 2004,06:32

Hello all .

How about playing an sound file on fluxbox startup?

Just like KNOPPIX do .

Deed anyone do this on his/her station?

Respect ,

Ergun

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 18 2004,13:40

Fluxbox stable doesn't have this sort of startup settings other than .xinitrc. In this case, the sound would play before Fluxbox loaded, unless you used a sound with a pause at the beginning. Doing it that way, however, means that the sound would play regardless of whether Fluxbox successfully loaded.

Posted by mpie on Aug. 18 2004,14:00

maybe you want to attach it to xserver rc with a delay then would play when x started as a kind of welcome sound?

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 19 2004,01:53

An example of a kind of "startup sound" would be to use the mpg321 command line audio player to play a short mp3 file whenever X Windows starts up.

For example, you might add:

mpg321 mysoundfile.mp3 &

to your .xinitrc file, BEFORE the fluxbox startup command line.

See this page for more details on the mpg321 command:

< http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/mpg321.1.html >

Posted by ergun on Aug. 19 2004,05:49

Thank`s for advice.

Now , I`m working on installing iDESK on DSL to set the icons transparency.

Did anyone know how to set transparency for all most aplications?

I will try to set alpha for XMMS and Mplayer , the most used aplications.

With respect ,

Ergun