canberra-gtk-play(1)

💖 canberra-gtk-play 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for canberra-gtk-play — that's the lil' command from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix box. She's small, she's cute, she plays sounds. Let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

canberra-gtk-play — play a sound event 🎵

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

canberra-gtk-play [ OPTIONS... ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you just run her with some options and she goes 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the canberra-gtk-play command — like, the sparknotes version, but make it iconic.

canberra-gtk-play plays sound events that are specified by the XDG Sound Theme and Name Specification. so it's not just "play a wav file", it's playing the theme-aware, spec-compliant, name-based sound events. it's giving standards-compliant queen 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

⭐ Application Options ⭐

• -v, --version — Display version number and quit. she tells you who she is and then she leaves. main character exit, no notes.
• -i, --id=STRING — Event sound identifier. this is the name of the event you wanna play, per the spec.
• -f, --file=PATH — Play file. you got a file? she'll play it.
• -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. (and yeah, never is on the menu too 🍓)
• -l, --loop=INTEGER — Loop how many times (default: 1). one loop is the default, so if you want it on repeat, that's a you decision bestie 💀
• -V, --volume=STRING — A floating point dB value for the sample volume (ex: 0.0). yes, dB, not vibes. 0.0 is the example they give.
• --property=STRING — An arbitrary property. anything you want, fr fr.
• --display=DISPLAY — X display to use.

🫶 Help Options 🫶

• -h, --help — Show help options. she'll explain herself.
• --help-all — Show all help options. all of them. every last one. she's thorough.
• --help-gtk — Show GTK+ Options. the GTK+ specific goodies.

🌈 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. lowkey slows things down but highkey great for debugging 🧚
• --gtk-module=MODULES — Load additional GTK+ modules.
• --g-fatal-warnings — Make all warnings fatal.

⚠️ bestie, clock that --g-fatal-warnings one. it doesn't soften anything, it makes all warnings fatal. dramatic? yes. reversible? no. use with intention 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

canberra-gtk-play is Copyright 2008 Lennart Poettering.

This manual page was written by Francois Wendling <frwendling@free.fr> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). sharing is caring 🫶

aaaand that's the whole page, no cap. this was canberra-gtk-play(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2010-08-01 — still serving looks all these years later. go play some sound events, you absolute icon 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅