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Re: [trinity-users] One more question for the TDE guru's

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 19:54:21 +0100
Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Tuesday 09 February 2016 11:05:30 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> 
> > Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > > Greetings everybody;
> > >
> > > Everytime I have to reboot, but often, or more recently because of
> > > tdm updates, restart tdm, I have had to find a shell and execute
> > > "alsactl restore" before I have sound.
> > >
> > > Is there a file that runs after my login, far enough after it, that
> > > I could add that command to instead of figureing out "hey its awful
> > > quiet in here" some time after the restart and reminds me to go and
> > > execute it?
> > >
> > > If I could figure out where in the restart the sound gets muted, I'd
> > > fix it there.  This has been a nearly 2 year long problem for me.
> > >
> > > Thanks everybody.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Hi Gene!
> >
> > Add in your .xinitrc:
> >
> > ( sleep 10; alsactl restore) &
> >
> > You might change 10 to any number of seconds you like :-)
> >
> > Nik
> 
> Thats probably better than my idea was, which was to add a bash script to 
> ~/.trinity/Autostart, named sound that did the same thing.
> 
> But since I already have the xrdb line in there, I terminated it with a 
> && so this would be exec'd after that bit of sed magic you supplied.  
> 
> Since theres quite a bit of stuff being restored when tdm restarts, which 
> takes a good 30+ seconds to do, I wish I could find where to get it to 
> restart each of the numerous term's I use on its correct workspace 
> screen.  They always restore with the correct number of tabs, but they 
> all pile up on the same screen & have to be moved to the screen I am 
> used to using for that particular workflow. I think the only exception 
> to that is probably trinity-kcalc, which always seems to be on the 
> workspace #3 it was running on prior to the restart.  So someplace, 
> there is that info.  Also, the tde version of kcalc does this, the kde 
> version does not restart.
> 
> Yeah, I know, beggars and horses...
> 
> Thanks Nik.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Hi Gene!

Last time I used saved sessions to restore my workspace after login, it worked flawless - but that's been more than a year ago. But I also rember, I had to use "start with empty session" temporarily (for one or two reboots) to get rid of some hikups.

Nik





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