Re: [Workrave-user] No sound events under Linux

[Rob C. <ro...@kr...>]

Eric Pierce <eri...@ya...> writes:

> I noticed a 'sounds' directory in the untarred source file, but none of the wav
> files were copied anywhere when I did 'make install'.

Strange... Workrave should install the sounds in

'/usr/local/workrave/share/sounds/workrave/'

(Assuming default /usr/local prefix)

If this directory does not contain the workrave wav files, could you
please mail us the output of 'make install' and possibly of configure?

Also, workrave uses gnome sound events to play the sounds. You could
open Applications->Desktop Preferences->Sounds. In the Sound
Preferences window select the 'Sound events' tab. The event list
should mention workrave somwhere. If so, select a workrave sound and
use play to see if this plays the sound.

If you installed workrave in /usr/local, make sure GNOME2_PATH is set
to /usr/local in your .bash_profile.

> I don't think this is related, but I get the following message on start up.
> $ workrave
> Xlib:  extension "RECORD" missing on display ":0.0".

Not a real problem. You are encouraged to load the record extend in
your Xfree configuration file (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4):

Section "Module"
        ...
        Load	"record"
        ...
EndSection

Just add the 'load "record"'. It makes activity monitoring somewhat
more reliable. Without record extension, workrave uses a fallback
monitoring method.

> (workrave:2846): Bonobo-CRITICAL **: file bonobo-running-context.c: line 406
> (bonobo_running_context_auto_exit_unref): assertion `object != NULL' failed

The directory /usr/local/workrave/lib/bonobo/servers/ should contain
two files 'Workrave-Applet.server' and 'Workrave-Control.server'. Do
you have these files? If you have these files, it likely that
GNOME2_PATH is not set.

> Thanks for writing such a nice looking and truly helpful piece of software.  I
> started using the Windows port at work last week.  Got the Linux version

Thanks!

> complied just last night after solving 10+ dependencies (mostly they were those
> Gnome C++ binding files).

:-) Time to write and INSTALL, README and FAQ file...

Hope this helps.

Groetjes,
  Rob
  
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