[Hoary] Sound problems

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:10:30 +0100, Lars Hallberg <lah at micropp.se> wrote:
> This is a dirty workaround, but might help.
> 
> It is possable to hook some script up that runs when gdm loads. I used
> it long time ago when some processes dident die as expected on logout
> and messed up later sessions. You shuld be able to clean up tmp ther.

Thanks. That's a good idea, or when the user logs out, maybe. It
should, theoretically, be possible to do a "rm /tmp/.esd" in the
context of whoever is logging out. When the problem is fixed, the
command should harmlessly fail.

One potential problem is that the kids sometimes have two gdms going
at once (using New Login under System Tools, if the person
relinguishing control doesn't want to shut everything down). And
because of the aforementioned crowd of  teenagers, I'm usually using
Ubuntu via VNC from a laptop. I'd have to special case somehow.

I still am not sure if the developers think this misfeature of
polpyaudio will be fixed before release. I get the distinct feeling
that I'm one of the very few affected. I'll ask on the
ubuntu-developer list later in the week (where I'm just an awe-struck
lurker).

-Eamonn