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Old 02-04-2004, 07:53 PM   #1
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Sound gurus: Keep sound running through logout / login?


I am presently running radio-audio-stream through gmplayer. The problem is if I want to log-out and then log-back-in as another user I lose my sound. Imagine if you will: working away, tasks to perform, but you have to stop to listen to the end of a song. Then proceed.

Could I send it to the background somehow? I'm vaguely familiar with the possibility of this sort of thing. As i write I think ohh i could do it from the command line and like send it to the background and then log-out and back in.

No. Simple. Something that opens in the background? A way of playing sound that will not be interrupted anything short of energy failure!

Many thanks sound gurus.
I know you are out there
 
Old 02-05-2004, 12:33 AM   #2
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show me how to run something on a linux box without logging in as some kind of user, and I'll show you and OS kernel that needs to totally needs to be rewritten from scratch
 
Old 02-05-2004, 12:34 AM   #3
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You'd have to use a text-mode player from a console
(tty rather than pts).
If you're in X every child process will be terminated if
you log-out, back-ground or not.


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Old 02-05-2004, 11:55 AM   #4
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Thanks Tink,

Yes I just switched to console and launched mplayer with a script.
<CTRL><ALT><F7> back to X and I can log out and in again
with no sound interruption.
Priorities man!

#! /bin/sh
mplayer http://66.244.199.217:80/ckua

Question though...

Quote:
If you're in X every child process will be terminated if
you log-out, back-ground or not.
Every child process? So what is Oracle? It keeps running?
Cheers,
alar
 
Old 02-05-2004, 02:36 PM   #5
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I don't know how Oracle is installed, but my wild
guess would be that it's being started sometime
during the /etc/init.d (/etc/rc.d) processing ... my
PostgreSQL does.

Easy way to find out: while in X, do ps -A and
see whether oracle's pid is smalled than X's...

[edit]
Guess I was wrong ... :} I just stopped my postmaster
and restarted it from a console in X (logged into X
as normal user, started postgresql through a login-
shell as root in an xterm using su - postgres -c " ...")
and it survived ... :}
[/edit]


Cheers,
Tink

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