<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >esdctl</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="EsounD" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Running EsounD" HREF="c76.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Running EsounD" HREF="c76.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="esdcat, esdmon, esdrec" HREF="x179.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >EsounD: The Enlightened Sound Daemon</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c76.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 3. Running EsounD</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x179.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="ESDCTL" >3.2. esdctl</A ></H1 ><P > controls certain aspects of the sound daemon. </P ><P > <B CLASS="COMMAND" >esdctl</B > <CODE CLASS="OPTION" >[options]</CODE > </P ><DIV CLASS="INFORMALTABLE" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN125" ></A ><TABLE BORDER="1" FRAME="border" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><COL><COL><THEAD ><TR ><TH >commands</TH ><TH >purpose</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD >lock</TD ><TD >foreign clients may not use the server</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >unlock</TD ><TD >foreign clients may use the server</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >standby, off</TD ><TD >suspend sound output for other programs</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >resume, on</TD ><TD >resume sound output</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >cache SAMPLE</TD ><TD >cache sample from file SAMPLE in the server</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >getid NAME</TD ><TD >retrieve a sample id from its name</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >free NAME</TD ><TD >uncache a sample in the server by NAME</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >play NAME</TD ><TD >play a cached sample once</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >loop NAME</TD ><TD >play a cached sample in a loop</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >stop NAME</TD ><TD >stop a looping sample at end of sample</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >serverinfo</TD ><TD >get server info from server</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >allinfo</TD ><TD >get player and sample info from server</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >panstream ID LEFT RIGHT</TD ><TD >set left and right volume levels for a stream</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD >pansample ID LEFT RIGHT</TD ><TD >set default left and right volume levels for a sample</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ><P > lock - only the "owner" of the daemon can play sounds. the first key (obtained from ˜/.esd-auth) submitted to the daemon identifies the owner. </P ><P > unlock - anyone can play sounds through the daemon. </P ><P > standby - frees the audio device for use by other programs. all sounds are ignored until the daemon is resumed. </P ><P > resume - brings daemon out of standby mode </P ><P > NOTE: more than one option may be listed on the command line </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c76.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x179.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Running EsounD</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c76.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >esdcat, esdmon, esdrec</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >