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##                GNOME Sound Monitor applet 1.3.2 (June 5, 2000)##
##   This software is Copyright (C) 2000 by John Ellis.          ##
##  Use this software at your own risk. I am not responsible for ##
##        anything this software may do to your computer.        ##
## This software falls under the GNU Public License. Please read ##
##              the COPYING file for more information            ##
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Author: John Ellis
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Sound Monitor is a GNOME panel applet, it displays the current Volume
output of the Esound daemon, also, optionally shows the Esound
status: Off(error), Standby, Ready. The esound daemon can also be
started, set to standby, and resumed from the applet's right click menu.
The esound server's information can also be displayed(streams, sample info).
Panning (left - right) can also be adjusted for streams and samples.

A few sample skins are included / installed with the applet.

Requirements:
  - GNOME version 1.2.0 or higher. (http://www.gnome.org)
  - Esound version 0.2.13 or higher. (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/news.html)

Notes for this release:

  - Minor changes. (not really bug fixes)

Installation:
  basically make ; make install should do it.

  The applet can then be run by selecting:
   'Panel'->'Add applet'->'Multimedia'->'Sound Monitor'

Additional themes go into (gnome-prefix)/share/sound-monitor
To make your own theme, see the THEME-SPEC file.

