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quasifilmie

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Registered: 2011-10-27

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[SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

I found a sound script so that when my tv outputs hdmi sound also does so automatically. Where do I put?

#!/bin/sh
if [[ $1 ]]
then
  xrandr --output HDMI1 --off
  pactl set-card-profile 0 output:analog-stereo
else
  xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 --right-of LVDS1
  pactl set-card-profile 0 output:hdmi-stereo

Last edited by quasifilmie (2012-01-30 00:56:33)

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

Do you want to  do this system wide, or for an individual user?

I think it will work system wide if you invoke it from /etc/rc.local

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quasifilmie

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

I prefer system-wide but perhaps it could be a problem. I pasted the script in rc.local and I get failed to open display connection refused when I startup. Could the script be getting invoked to soon? Where would I put this for a single-user?

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

Yeah, I was afraid of that. 
How do you start your window manager, and which window manager / desktop environment are you using?

If you are using startx, you could invoke it from your ~/.xinitrc.  You might create a second scipt, launch it in the background, and put a sleep at the beginning to ensure X is ready.
KDE, Openbox and Xfce4 allow you to run scripts at start up.  Gnome might, I would not know.

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quasifilmie

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

I am using gnome 3. I have gdm as a daemon in rc.conf.

For gnome-session-properties, would I make a .sh file and add that in gnome-session properties.

quasifilmie

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

Tried to execute the sh file and it did not work. I get command not found. Sorry, I am a complete noob with bash.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

Make sure the script is executable

chmod a+x <path to script>

quasifilmie

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Re: [SOLVED] Where should I put this sound script?

Im just going to mark as solved as the script does not actually do the intended purpose.  @skunktrader I did get the script to execute though.