Documentation

Installation

If you want to be notified of new messages by a sound produced from a WAV or AU file, you must have the libsndfile library installed on your system. If not, wmnotify will install itself correctly but this option will be disabled. To check for the presence of this library on your system, run the following commands:

Then, to configure wmnotify:

If the configure script didn't find libsndfile, you may try to configure wmnotify using:

Finally, to install wmnotify:

Program launch

To launch wmnotify:

If you want wmnotify to produce sounds even when another program is using the sound card (MP3 player for example), you must use the eSound (ESD) library. This library act as a sound mixer daemon for enabling multiple audio applications to have access to the sound card simultaneously. Hopefully, wmnotify doesn't need to be recompiled to use this feature. Simply launch wmnotify like this:

Your other audio applications must be configured for using eSound for this to work however. For example, with the XMMS MP3 player (version 1.2.7), you must specify this output plugin:

If you have difficulties with wmnotify, there is now an option to have verbose debugging messages:

Manual

Online version of the manual (Manpage)

Files

$PREFIX/bin/wmnotify

wmnotify executable

$HOME/.wmnotifyrc

Configuration file

Last modified:  Wed Nov 5 02:11:25 EST 2008