The esdmon command is used to monitor the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD). ESD is a sound server that can be used to play sound files on Linux and Unix-like systems.
For example, to monitor the default device in text format, you would use the following command:
esdmon -f text
To list all of the available devices, you would use the following command:
esdmon -l
help
esdmon [options]
Monitor the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD).
Options:
-f, --format=FORMAT Set the format of the output.
-d, --device=DEVICE Set the device to monitor.
-l, --list List all of the available devices.
-h, --help Show this help message.
Monitors the specified device using ESD. If no device is specified, the default device is used.
breakdown
-f, --format=FORMAT: This option specifies the format of the output. The supported formats are:
text: Text output
json: JSON output
-d, --device=DEVICE: This option specifies the device that you want to monitor. The default device is default.
-l, --list: This option lists all of the available devices.
-h, --help: This option shows this help message.