ICESOUND(1)

NAME
 icesound - play audio files when interesting GUI events happen

SYNOPSIS
icesound [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
The icewm(1) window manager generates so-called GUI events in response to interesting actions, like opening or closing of application windows, switching of work space, etc. GUI events are a property of the X root window. icewm(1) changes this property whenever a new GUI event occurs. Interested applications can listen for changes to this property. There are nearly twenty GUI events defined.

icesound is an application, which is one of the icewm(1) applications, which responds to these GUI events by playing audio files. These sound files are .wav files located in a sounds sub-directory in one of the icewm(1) configuration directories.

icesound supports several common audio interfaces. These are: ALSA, OSS and libAO. These must be enabled during configuration. ALSA, OSS and libAO all require support for libsndfile, which is a very common library to read audio files.

ALSA
    ALSA is rather involved to program and it works, but this could use more testing. It plays at most one sound at a time.

LibAO
    LibAO is a cross-platform audio output library which is a convenient wrapper around a significant number of common audio interfaces. It has a simple configuration file which is documented in the libao.conf(5) manual page.

OSS The Open Sound System (OSS) is a cross-platform sound interface, which is fully supported by icesound.

When multiple audio interfaces are available icesound will examine them all until it finds one which it can connect to and then use that one. By default it prefers them in the order of: AO, ALSA, OSS.

OPTIONS

  SPECIFIC OPTIONS

-d, --display=DISPLAY
    X11 display used by icewm(1) (default: $DISPLAY).

-s, --sample-dir=DIRECTORY
    Specifies a directory with sound files. The default is: $HOME/.config/icewm/sounds, $HOME/.icewm/sounds, CFGDIR/sounds and LIBDIR/sounds. See the output of "icewm --directories".

-i, --interface={AO|ALSA|OSS}[,{AO|ALSA|OSS}]*
    Specifies the audio output interfaces. One or more of: AO, ALSA, OSS separated by commas (",").

-D, --device=DEVICE
    Backwards compatibility only: the default device. Please prefer one of the -A, -O or -S options.

-O, --oss=DEVICE
    Specifies the OSS device (default: "default").

-A, --alsa=DEVICE
    Specifies the ALSA device (default: /dev/dsp).

-z, --snooze=MILLISECONDS
    Specifies the snooze interval between sound events in milliseconds. Default is 500 milliseconds.

-p, --play=SOUND
    Plays the given sound (name or number) and exits.

-l, --list-files
    Lists the available sound file paths and exits.

--list-sounds
    Lists the supported sound file names and exits.

--list-interfaces
    Lists the supported audio interfaces and exits.

-v, --verbose
    Be verbose and print some information when sound events occur.

  GENERAL OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Print a brief usage statement to stdout and exit.

-V, --version
    Print the program version to stdout and exit.

-C, --copying
    Print copying permissions to stdout for the program and exit.

EXIT STATUS

0   Success.

1   General error.

2   Command line error.

3   Subsystems error (i.e cannot connect to server).

SEE ALSO
icewm(1), libao.conf(5), padsp(1), aplay(1), alsamixer(1).

BUGS
icesound had no known bugs at the time of release. Please report bugs for current versions to the source code repository at <https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues>.

AUTHOR
Brian Bidulock <mailto:bidulock@openss7.org>.

See --copying for full copyright notice and copying permissions.

LICENSE
IceWM is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License. See the COPYING file in the distribution or use the --copying flag to display copying permissions.