Re: FVWM: Fvwm2 Audio ?

From: Albrecht Kadlec <albrecht_at_auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 96 16:39:30 +0200

>>>>> Ray Curtis writes:

>>>>> "MB" == Mark Boyns <boyns_at_sdsu.edu> writes:
R> This works great for single words, however does not work
R> for statements enclosed in quotes, such as "open window". This works
R> in a xterm as: say "open window".

if you need quotes on the xterm command line, you'll need a second pair of
quotes for fvwm2 to use it as a single "filename" :-)
like:
*FvwmAudio iconify '"Mission accomplished"'

sorry, can't test it, no "say" command :-(
albrecht

R> Any other ideas ?
R> Thanks,

MB> ray_at_fred.net (Ray Curtis) writes:


> I am using fvwm2 and have been using Fvwm-Audio to play sound
> files for some things in the past. I recently installed
> 'rsynth' on my system and would like to make Fvwm-Audio play
> messages using 'say' from the 'rsynth' package. Has anyone
> tried this, or know if this is possible ? This would be real
> neat to be able to play any message you wanted. Rsynth seems
> to work pretty well using the British dictionary.

MB> That sounds possible. Do you want it to say things like "open",
MB> "close", etc?

MB> Try something like this:

MB> *FvwmAudioPlayCmd /usr/local/bin/say
MB> *FvwmAudio deiconify open
MB> *FvwmAudio iconify close
MB> *FvwmAudio raise_window raise
MB> *FvwmAudio lower_window lower

MB> This will invoke say as `say open', `say close', `say raise', and
MB> `say lower'.

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Received on Tue Jun 25 1996 - 09:48:01 BST

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