Re: Fedora 11 nerfed my mixer

[Bastien Nocera <bnocera redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 14:51 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
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> > I don't know what Pidgin uses, but spitting out alert sounds using
> > paplay is unlikely to work well at all.
> 
> Why not? Small processes working together is the Unix way. But people
> seem to have forgotten that.

Because paplay doesn't know it's playing a sound event, music, or audio
from a softphone. I also gave the work-around to avoid the change of
volume with flat-volumes enabled.

> Pidgin doesn't exactly have low latency requirements.
> 
> > You need to set the
> > "PULSE_PROP_media.role=event" envvar before launching paplay. Otherwise
> > it thinks paplay is a normal, say, music application and will change the
> > volumes.
> > 
> > That's a good use of your patch action: port Pidgin to use libcanberra.
> 
> How about a command line interface to libcanberra?

PULSE_PROP_media.role=event paplay