From kde-devel  Sun Jul 22 01:16:04 2001
From: Jeff Tranter <tranter () pobox ! com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 01:16:04 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: desktop entries for non-kde sound applications
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99576451403034

You either need to download and install the aRts plug-in from
http://www.xmms.org or find the package for your distribution
(e.g. xmmsarts for Debian). Then enable it from the
xmms options/preferences Audio I/O Plugins screen.

On July 21, 2001 04:08 pm, Till Krech wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday, 21. July 2001 21:55, Jeff Tranter wrote:
> > There is an aRts plug-in for xmms that will make it work properly
> > without the need for artsdsp.
>
> since this may be right for xmms, it is not valid for realplayer.
> Sorry to ask, but how do I (or any other user) activate the plugin ? if I
> use one of the provided desktop entries or the given choices in the
> file-type configuration dialog, I get the described blocking behaviour -
> sometimes even with loosing mouse control under X so that I have to switch
> to another console and kill xmms.
>
> It's not just a problem for myself - I can live with it - but I'm thinking
> of the ordinary user and the upcoming 2.2 final release.
 
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