[PlanetCCRMA] missing menu item for timidity++ "can't find it"
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Mar 11 14:12:01 PST 2005
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 14:29, nigel henry wrote:
> Been moaning for a while about KDE dropping Kmidi from FC2. But messing around
> on MDK10.0 trying to get the sound working with alsa 1.06a I thought I'd DL
> timidity++. Trying it I found it plays midi files just like Kmidi. Whoopee.
> Right, apt-get install timidity++ on FC2. Doh. The binary is in /usr/bin. the
> icons are in /usr/share/timidity, but I'm not sure how to access the binary.
> Tried timidity++ at user and root on CLI.
The program is /usr/bin/timidity, just type that in a terminal.
"/usr/bin/timidity -h" for some help...
> Complete No-No. And absolutely
> nothing in the menu's anywhere. Ironic really, I don't like MDK but it gives
> a nice desktop icon for timidity and the program works, and yet on FC2 where
> I've got all the planet stuff it's a no-go. If your reading this Fernando,
> thanks a lot for the help in getting the planet repositories back in the
> sources.list after the attempted dag wieers coup d'etat. Any help to get this
> working greatly appreciated. Nigel.
Timidity++ comes with the Fedora Core distro (ie: I'm not adding it
myself). I have an updated package that I have not released yet which is
more recent and has jack support.
-- Fernando
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