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Topic: startup sound on openbox

Aello
I know it is possible I just could not find how.
I want to know how to make start up sound on openbox for login.
I want that sound that Americans have on their TV's. I think it is called an ex-box.

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Re: startup sound on openbox

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=751843
This seems like what you want.

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Re: startup sound on openbox

Ja!
Fantastic! It works great.
Thank you very much.

What i did :
I installed youtube-dl and downloaded the video at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nFLoWlUIa0

Then I used ffmpeg with the commands:
ffmpeg -i name_of_video.flv -acodec copy output.mp3

Then I used audacity to convert the file to Ogg Vorbis.
And the rest in in the wonderful tutorial you provided.

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  • Registered: 2010-01-26
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Re: startup sound on openbox

thanks for the great idea, I have now at the top of my autostart.sh

aplay ~/comp1.wav &

so I get the same sound at login as when gdm came up in 9.04 =3

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Re: startup sound on openbox

no, put it at the end

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Re: startup sound on openbox

^ Since the autostart.sh commands are all followed by ampersands, does it really matter where aplay goes?

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Re: startup sound on openbox

andrews, why? When X is started and openbox appears (the desktop) I get my sound, seems logical to me. I could also put it in a lot of times tongue

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Re: startup sound on openbox

I thought you wanted the sound to load last, after everything else, no?

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Re: startup sound on openbox

andrews,

when you have an ampersand "&" behind an entry in autostart.sh the command is launched and the next command in the list comes as next without delay. & doesn't wait for a command to be 'finished', so you can change the order as you wish.

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Re: startup sound on openbox

ohhhhhh
I did not know this.
so then in crunchbang 9.xx....
what dows lxsession do? I took it out of the autostart and havn't noticed any difference.

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Re: startup sound on openbox

andrews

hehe, quite a lot of people don't know this. it would be the (lxde) session-manager, but actually openbox-session already does handle this. nothing would break if you keep lxsession or take it out.

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Re: startup sound on openbox

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/23769/#p23769

I noticed that putting my piece in it a lot of times, it just plays them at the same time like expected tongue So if you want to hear it after everything, you should build in a delay with sleep.

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Re: startup sound on openbox

^^ I don't think lxsession is doing anything at all. Even with that line in autostart.sh there doesn't seem to be any lxsession process running...

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Re: startup sound on openbox

So then why was it put in crunchbang?

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  • From: Nagoya, Japan
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Re: startup sound on openbox

I'm not sure. Maybe there's a historical reason, maybe there's something I've missed ( that happens a lot roll ).

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