---
name: "gpe-announce"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gpe-announce"
version: "0.14-2"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gpe-announce"
---

# gpe-announce(1)

program to announce alarms to the user

## NAME

gpe-announce - program to announce alarms to the user

## SYNOPSIS

**gpe-announce**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **gpe-announce**.

This manual page was written for the Debian(TM) distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**gpe-announce** announces alarms set by **gpe-calendar** and **gpe-clock** to the user in the G Palmtop Environment

## OPTIONS

**gpe-announce** **"alarm text"**

The text displayed by the alarm box can be specified as a quoted string on the command line.

Further arguments are ignored due to problems with the upstream gstreamer support.

## AUDIO SUPPORT

To allow audio sounds, ensure that /dev/mixer exists and that no other processes are using /dev/dsp (e.g. a music player like **rhythmbox**, even when not playing, will make **gpe-announce** think that the audio device is busy).

You may need to load the snd\_pcm\_oss kernel driver for /dev/mixer to appear:

```
$ sudo modprobe snd_pcm_oss
```

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Neil Williams codehelp@debian.org for the Debian(TM) system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

## AUTHOR

**Joe McCarthy**

## COPYRIGHT

CopyrightCopyright © 2007 Neil Williams\