Sound Monitor Applet


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Sound Monitor Applet

Sound Monitor Applet

Sound Monitor applet, shown in its default theme (appearance) in Figure 1, is a sound volume display and an interface for controlling ESD (the Enlightened Sound Daemon) -- GNOME component responsible for sound output. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Multimedia->Sound Monitor.

Usage

Sound Monitor always displays the volume of sound being produced on your system graphically. You may control sound by turning ESD on or off by right-clicking on the applet and selecting Place Esound in standby or Resume Esound respectively, as described below.

Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:

  • Manager… — brings up the Sound Monitor Manager dialog, which allows you to view and control current ESD settings.

  • Place Esound in standby/Resume Esound/Start Esound — At any time, you will only have one of these three items, depending on whether ESD is running and what its status is. The first two menu items allow you to temporarily place ESD in standby and then resume ESD. This is useful if you have a sound application which is unable to work with ESD, but needs direct access to the sound device. The third allows you to start Esound if it is not started.

  • Properties… — opens the Properties dialog.

  • Help — displays this document.

  • About… — shows basic information about Sound Monitor, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

Customization

You can customize Sound Monitor applet by right-clicking on it and choosing Properties…. This will open the Properties dialog (shown in Figure 2), which allows you to change various settings.

The properties in the General tab are:

The properties in the Theme tab are:

The properties in the Advanced tab are:

  • ESD host to monitor — This option allows you to listen to sound being played by ESD on another computer. To do so, enter the network address (or IP address) of a computer to monitor in the format host:port. The host specified must be running ESD and have their esound daemon "unlocked" to allow other machines to connect. Note that the default port for ESD is 5001. Leave this entry blank to monitor sound on the local machine.

After you have made all the changes you want, click on OK to apply the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Cancel button.

Authors

Sound Monitor was written by John Ellis (). Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. You can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by Dan Mueth () and John Ellis (). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to . You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.