Re: [linux-audio-user] suggested Window Manager good for audio?

mc (MidnightCommander) will play an audio file by just pressing ENTER on the file. You can have *any* type of file can do *anything* you want it to do just by pressing ENTER on the file in mc. I even have played multiple audio tracks by pressing ENTER on a ".ecs" file (ecasound text file that will play all the tracks, effects, volumes and panning listed in the file). To use this feature... First... at the command line, type... "mc -f" (no quotes of course) to find where mc keeps it's files (to edit the file extension manager *globally* that is...). For a local user, mc's files are in ~/.mc. My global file is called "mc.ext". Here is a simple example that will load a file into xmms and play it (by pressing ENTER on a .WAV file in mc) (by the way... make sure you quit mc and restart it every time you edit "mc.ext")... shell/.wav Open=xmms %f Just in case the extension is uppercase... shell/.WAV Open=xmms %f Here's the example of playing multiple tracks with effects, panning, volumes set... with ecasound reading the ".ecs" file that you pressed ENTER on... shell/.ecs Open=ecasound -c -s %f The beauty of the last command is that ecasound is a "command line" program. You don't have to leave your shell. And the (perticular) command that I demonstrate here has ecasound in "interactive mode" (-c). So you can press ENTER on the .ecs file, then type "t" in the (ecasound) command line to start playing the tracks... type "fw 3" to fastforward 3 seconds... type "setpos 54" to start playing at 54 seconds into your tracks... and things like that. With mc and ecasound, I've ran a command line only multitrack set-up for over 2 years not. And I havn't even mentioned mc's built in text editor (or it's text viewer for that matter). Rocco