canberra-gtk-play(1)

canberra-gtk-play1

Play a sound event

Usage

canberra-gtk-play [OPTIONS ...]

Overview

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

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

  1. 7–13

Authors

canberra-gtk-play is Copyright 2008 Lennart Poettering.

This manual page was written by Francois Wendling <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From gnome-session-canberra 0.30-18 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.