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Galactic_CakeYT

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Registered: 2021-07-31

Posts: 3

Custom Alert Sound (GNOME)

I'm trying to change the default Alert Sound on GNOME, but I'm not sure how to do this. I've tried to import .ogg files into .local/share/sounds but when I looked at Tweaks nothing changed. Same applies with the Sound setting in Settings. I tried to put the .ogg file in /usr/share/sounds in another Linux Distro, but it's the same result, but I didn't do it on this Distro.

snakeroot

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Registered: 2012-10-06

Posts: 172

Re: Custom Alert Sound (GNOME)

Not a Gnome user, but per this blog post you may need to add an entry to /usr/share/gnome-control-center/sounds/gnome-sounds-default.xml.

Galactic_CakeYT

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Registered: 2021-07-31

Posts: 3

Re: Custom Alert Sound (GNOME)

The sounds folder in
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/sounds/gnome-sounds-default.xml
doesn't exist. Same goes for the file. If I create the file manually then it doesn't do anything, I've tried doing this exact same thing on Fedora.

oksiniichan

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Registered: 2023-05-05

Posts: 1

Re: Custom Alert Sound (GNOME)

A work around.
I just replaced a sound from /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/ with the sound I wanted renaming it to whatever I am replacing it with. Then switched to that sound in Gnome sound settings.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,771

Re: Custom Alert Sound (GNOME)

That's gonna be reverted w/ the next update.
Did you check the linked blog?

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