[ILUG] desktop switching and stuff

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:37:48AM +0100 or thereabouts, McAuley, Tim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all the replies from my rant on Saturday.
> 
> Just to clarify, I was only trying to change the default desktop for the
> whole system (i.e. everyone). I know how to change default desktop for a
> single user (either change it at the gdm prompt, or use switchdesk).
> 
> My grievance was really with RH, in that the references I found to change
> the desktop for the system was pointing to the sysconfig/desktop file... and
> this didn't work, it broke everything. I just found that a little silly. 
> 
> Anyone... thanks!
> 
> Tim
> 
> PS..
> 
> 1-  the "desktop" file originally had 
> DESKTOP="GNOME", hence the reason I only changed the GNOME bit.
> 
> 2 - I had the CD writer working, and I can copy audio CDs (I wasn't very
> clear on that). It's just XCD-Roast doesn't have the feature yet to write,
> say MP3s, from disk to CD yet. Don't worry... all I have to do is install
> another front-end program for doing that. All the lowlevel tools are
> installed and working AFAIK.
Tried burning an audio CD from mp3 using IIRC mpg123 to play mp3 to wav and
then cdrecord from mp3s that had been ripped from CD using cdparanoia and
encoded with bladeenc but the resulting CD was very clickey (I'd probably
get an improvement if I was prepared to fiddle with sampling rates and so
on).

I wonder are the hooks in place yet for the mp3 to wav task in XCD-Roast?
If not, might be worth writing them.

Conor
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