canberra-gtk-play (1) Linux Manual Page
canberra-gtk-play – play a sound event
Synopsis
canberra-gtk-play [ OPTIONS… ]Description
This manual page documents briefly the canberra-gtk-play command. canberra-gtk-play plays sound events that are specified by the XDG Sound Theme and Name Specification.
Options
Application Options
- -v, –version
- Display version number and quit
- -i, –id=STRING
- Event sound identifier
- -f, –file=PATH
- Play file
- -d, –description=STRING
- Event sound description
- -c, –cache-control={ permanent|volatile|never }
- Specify how canberra-gtk-play manages its cache. permanent will cause the sample to be cached permanently, volatile to be cached until the cache needs to be freed.
- -l, –loop=INTEGER
- Loop how many times (default: 1)
- -V, –volume=STRING
- A floating point dB value for the sample volume (ex: 0.0)
- –property=STRING
- An arbitrary property
- –display=DISPLAY
- X display to use
Help Options
- -h, –help
- Show help options
- –help-all
- Show all help options
- –help-gtk
- Show GTK+ Options
GTK+ Options
- –class=CLASS
- Program class as used by the window manager
- –name=NAME
- Program name as used by the window manager
- –screen=SCREEN
- X screen to use
- –sync
- Make X calls synchronous
- –gtk-module=MODULES
- Load additional GTK+ modules
- –g-fatal-warnings
- Make all warnings fatal
Authors
canberra-gtk-play is Copyright 2008 Lennart Poettering.This manual page was written by Francois Wendling <frwendling [at] free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).