How do I enable sound in AfterStep?
First, make sure you have the necessary hardware, and have a kernel compiled with sound support. You can check that your sound actually works by trying the following at a command prompt: cat [some au file] > /dev/audio Then, edit the ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/audio file. You should see lines like these (if you don’t, add them): *AudioPlayCmd /usr/bin/showaudio *AudioDir /usr/local/share/afterstep/desktop/sounds *AudioDelay 1 Again, if these aren’t there, add them. Verify that the AudioPlayCmd is a valid program and that the sounds you want to play are in /usr/local/share/afterstep/desktop/sounds/ (or set it to the appropriate directory). Below that section, you should see many lines like this: #*Audio startup gong.au Simply remove the comment (#) from the beginning of the line and if you wish, set the startup event to some other au file. The format is: *Audio [event] [sound] Do that for the rest of the Audio events, and as one AfterStepper put it, you’ll literally add new bells and w
