[Techtalk] secret processes?

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 04:23:29 pm Karen Liesenfeld wrote:
> Carla Schroder wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I have a 30-second music clip that I use for notifications on Pidgin.
> > When I am testing my sound notifications, the whole file has to play and
> > there is no way to stop playback. I can't even find a process to kill,
> > which is scarier than not being able to shut off music playback. Any
> > ideas how to hunt this down and see what's going on?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Carla
>
> Hi Carla,
>
> if you are on Ubuntu and you just want to mute the playback you can
> install pavucontrol.

heya,

I'm not using Ubuntu, this is a Debian machine running KDE 3.5. I have volume 
controls, that's not the problem.The problem is I can't stop the playback of 
the music file, and it disturbs me to not see a process for it. It is 
un-Linux to not be able to track this sort of thing down!

Carla

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