[klug] FixSound script

[klug.member.lancer at xoxy.net]

Last night (at KLUG) I mentioned to someone that a certain program which 
for them takes a long time to load up could be due to a process of artsd 
already running and causing problems when the program tries to start 
another artsdprocess over the top of the older one. The solution I use 
was to make a bash scripot /usr/bin/fixsound which students are asked to 
run prior to running applications which seem to trigger the problem.

Symptoms:
Sometimes running applications with sound (tuxracer, gcompris, other SDL 
type programs) the program takes a very long time to start or begins to 
start (bouncing hourglass icon) but then fails to launch.
Some games (e.g: taxracer) are affected by a lag in sound.

My solution:

/usr/bin/fixsound (run just before launching a new app)
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#!/bin/bash
# ARTSD KILL SCRIPT
# Kills a processes of artsd
 
PROSCREEN=$( ps -A | grep artsd | awk '{print $1}' )
 
if [ -n "$PROSCREEN" ]; then
        echo "ARTSD is running on" $PROSCREEN
        kill $PROSCREEN
        echo "...killed"
else
        echo "There are no ARTSD processes running."
fi
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I use a similar script to kill instances of xscreensaver before playing 
videos. Even though some have killsaver built into them I think they may 
go smoother when the saver if truely not running.