"ESPEAKER=localhost" makes Leopard's Gnome speak

[Randall Wood]

On 1/27/08, Guido Soranzio <guido.soranzio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Until now I have never heard a sound played by the esound
> daemon of Gnome in Leopard.
>
> I have just discovered that if you export "ESPEAKER=localhost"
> in the shell from where you launch a Gnome app
> (i.e. gnome-sound-properties), the sounds are played again.
>
> This tip could be mentioned in the documentation of the scripts
> to launch Gnome for the benefits of those who are still interested
> in testing (and hopefully maintaining) it.
>

Thanks for the tip. I've put it in the GNOME page on our wiki (
http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/GNOME )
-- 
Randall Wood
randall.h.wood at alexandriasoftware.com

"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes. All the
rest is just philosophy."
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