Tune started from rc.local plays to completion, before bootup continues

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 12:04 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Playing sound before your desktop session is started is simply not the
> > use case PulseAudio is designed for.
> 
> On that note.  Having the login window trying to announce it's arrival,
> which prior versions used to do, at least, seems a bad idea.
> 
> Likewise, I notice that Gnome rarely ever manages to play the sound file
> that it's supposed to as your session starts.  And, if it tries to play
> a sound as you log out, it starts and gets abruptly cut off.  That's
> another couple of things that aren't well implemented.
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don't know about Gnome but in the latest updates on KDE, it is sort of
working like one would imagine it to work.

Craig