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anorax

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Registered: 2014-06-16

Posts: 14

'canberra-boot' ignoring sound theme

Hi,

when using Canberra for system sounds (with xfce), it's all working nice when the event sounds are triggered in the desktop environment. It (canberra-gtk-play) uses the theme set in with xfconf under xsettings/Net/SoundThemeName, although I had to delete some 'event-sound-cache.tdb....' files after changing the setting for it to be applied. But: 'canberra-boot' which is used by the canberra bootup and shutdown services ALWAYS uses the sounds from the 'freedesktop' theme, even if there is no such theme (it will then display a 'File not found' error).

Does anyone know why canberra-boot ignores the SoundThemeName setting while canberra-gtk-play uses it? Is that the default behavior or should it be using the configured sound theme?

BTW: I also tried setting the sound theme in ~.gtkrc-2.0, ~/.config/gtkrc-3.0/settings.ini as well as with dconf under org/gnome/desktop/sound and gconf under /desktop/gnome/sound (maybe I used the wrong key name?).

Oh, and if anyone can explain those files in ~/.cache and why/when they are created/altered that would be also very nice

Thanks and greetings