[noob question] I lost the sound when using xmonad
Dear list, I installed xmonad on my laptop, and everything works great. The only problem is that now I lost the sound that I had with gnome. I am an xmonad and haskell noob, so I don't know where to start to fix this issue. Does someone have a clue? Many thanks, Sam
I installed xmonad on my laptop, and everything works great. The only problem is that now I lost the sound that I had with gnome. I am an xmonad and haskell noob, so I don't know where to start to fix this issue. Does someone have a clue?
This is not directly related to xmonad. First, could you provide more information about your environment (OS, distribution etc.)? Assuming you're using a linux distribution, you are probably forgetting to start alsa or pulseaudio daemons. -- Ivan Sichmann Freitas GNU/Linux user #509059
Hi Ivan, Thank you for your reply. I am using Arch Linux. I didn't know anything about alsa and pulseaudio, I am starting to look about them now, thanks for the clue. Sam On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Ivan Sichmann Freitas < ivansichfreitas@gmail.com> wrote:
I installed xmonad on my laptop, and everything works great. The only problem is that now I lost the sound that I had with gnome. I am an xmonad and haskell noob, so I don't know where to start to fix this issue. Does someone have a clue?
This is not directly related to xmonad. First, could you provide more information about your environment (OS, distribution etc.)?
Assuming you're using a linux distribution, you are probably forgetting to start alsa or pulseaudio daemons.
-- Ivan Sichmann Freitas GNU/Linux user #509059
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On 16 July 2012 08:37, Samuel Lê
Hi Ivan,
Thank you for your reply. I am using Arch Linux. I didn't know anything about alsa and pulseaudio, I am starting to look about them now, thanks for the clue.
You have to take into account that XMonad is a window manager (WM), NOT a desktop environment (DE), though XMonad is *perfectly* capable of running as a DE. A DE gives you a "base work space": daemons that ran wifi connections, rings, auto-mounting, sound servers, ecc (and a lot of stuff you don't need). In XMonad you have to do it ALL by hand, which is not terrible (and you learn that there's no magic behind your screen*), but it makes a really steep learning curve. Also, that's the same reason why you can run Gnome + XMonad (instead of metacity) or Xfce + XMonad (instead xfwm4). Maybe for the start it would be easier to use a DE with XMonad as a window manager :). *A couple of weeks ago I discovered why in XMonad the file managers weren't auto-mounting my usb drives, but they were working on openbox, xfce and gnome. I finally found that was because a polkit daemon needed to be running to that feature to work. Regards! -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/
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