gaim sound?

[total newbie]

how would i make it so gaim plays a sound when someone logs off though my speakers?

cus at the moment all it does it bleep the pc speaker and its very anoying,

im using v0.71 of GAIM (suprised i managed to set it up actually ;) )

[knute]

Go into gaim's preferences under sound, and choose what you want to use for a sound device.

I'm not on a linux box atm (work), but if memory serves you have choices like speaker, oss, arts, esd, and custom. Choose whatever's appropriate for your system setup.

HTH

[total newbie]

all i get is console beep or command :confused:

[Hayl]

if you aren't using arts or esdor don't have support for them in your gaim, then you have to use the command one.

generally "play %s" works

[total newbie]

actually arts is running its set to run at kde startup and i do hear sound when kde starts

im using suse 8.2 btw

[Hayl]

your Gaim may have been compiled without ARTS support.

[total newbie]

probaly


how do i compile it with arts support then?

EDIT: no need now i set it to use the command artsplay %s

lol if only i had read the gaim faq, oh well :o

[serz]

Download the tarball.

Uncompress it, go into the new directory and then run ./configure --help. You will see many things that you can enable/disable.

There must be something like "--enable-arts" or something like that.