Official gnus sounds

Official gnus sounds

[paul stevenson]

Gnus has the ability to play a jingle at startup, yet does not appear to
come with a sound file.

Is there an official gnus startup jingle? If not, does anyone have a
suitable file, like the plaintive bleat of a lost gnu or something?

Paul

Re: Official gnus sounds

[Karl Kleinpaste]

paul stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov> writes:
> Gnus has the ability to play a jingle at startup, yet does not
> appear to come with a sound file.
> Is there an official gnus startup jingle?

See gnus-audio.el @ line 119:

	(defvar gnus-startup-jingle "Tuxedomoon.Jingle4.au"
	  "Name of the Gnus startup jingle file.")

And look in e.g. /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/sounds.

Frankly, it's rather a demented and surreal thing to hear every time
Gnus starts.  I enabled it for a while several times, but invariably
I've had to do away with it after a fairly short time.

Re: Official gnus sounds

[paul stevenson]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> paul stevenson <spaul@mail.phy.ornl.gov> writes:
> > Gnus has the ability to play a jingle at startup, yet does not
> > appear to come with a sound file.
> > Is there an official gnus startup jingle?
> 
> See gnus-audio.el @ line 119:
> 
> 	(defvar gnus-startup-jingle "Tuxedomoon.Jingle4.au"
> 	  "Name of the Gnus startup jingle file.")
> 
> And look in e.g. /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/sounds.

Ahh... It seems to be an xemacs thing, unless the rpm'd emacs
packages I installed were deficient:

[~] the003 $ rpm -ql emacs emacs-nox emacs-X11 emacs-el | egrep au$
[~] the003 $

Re: Official gnus sounds

[Kai.Grossjohann]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

  > See gnus-audio.el @ line 119:
  > 
  > 	(defvar gnus-startup-jingle "Tuxedomoon.Jingle4.au"
  > 	  "Name of the Gnus startup jingle file.")
  > 
  > And look in e.g. /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/sounds.

Though I've never heard nor seen a gnu, I don't really think it sounds
a lot like a lost gnu plaintively bleaking.  I was really looking
forward to hearing an interesting sound :-|

kai
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