I have a problem which occurs every evening: often I started a video using realplayer before going to bed. Realplayer does not close itself at the end of the video, which is correct in general but in my case not the best practice. Realplayer is a proprietary tool and uses Open Sound System (OSS), which is a bit antiquated nowadays. Also OSS was blocking the sound device when playing sounds. The crap Enlightment Sound Daemon (ESD) was a result of that issue. Back to my topic. Often when I go to bed I want to watch a video, but always want my Banshee to wake me up in the morning. But Banshee cannot play any sound, if the device is blocked by realplayer. So I need to kill realplayer once the video is done or a bit later but before the next morning. So I do something like sleep 3600 ; kill <pid> which works pretty fine. If I’m drunken, which takes place naturally rarely, I have the problem that I do not remember how big the integer after my sleep must be. And, especially when I’m drunken, I hate it to have my video quitting before it is done or I felt asleep. So I need a sleep-replacement which is more convenient and usable when being drunken. In fact I need a sleep replacement which can handle strings like »2m«, »2h«, »60*60*2« etc. pp. Download it! And now I can go to bed.
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Alex supposes:
published on November 16th 2006, 01:53:02 amHätte ein täglicher Cron-job auf eine morgendliche Zeit gestellt mit einem Aufruf von irgendwas wie "killall realplayer" nicht gereicht ?
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Lars Strojny answers:
published on November 16th 2006, 10:07:15 pmNee, ich steh ja immer unterschiedlich auf.
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