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anorax

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Registered: 2014-06-16

Posts: 14

Canberra + XFCE - issues with canberra-gtk-play and canberra-boot

Hi,

I know it's not exactly essential to a functioning system, but still it's an issue with libcancerra:

There are the services for system bootup, shutdown and restart which I enabled by 'sudo systemctl enable canberra-system-bootup.service'. A status query shows that 'canberra-boot' is enabled, ran on boot and exited with success but there is never any sound being played. Manually invoking canberra-boot (with all possible event ids and without any parameters) never plays anything nor does it show any output whatsoever. I wonder what is wrong here. I tried it on another Arch-based system and it worked fine.

Freedesktop sound theme files are in place as needed and all dependencies seem to be satisfied. 'canberra-gtk-play' works as expected although the XFCE autostarter which I've created (canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login") sometimes successfully plays the sound and sometimes it just doesn't. Maybe something with XFCE's volume daemon?

I've already reinstalled libcanberra and disabled and reenabled the bootup service several times.

If there's anyone who has experienced similar issues and has an idea how to solve it, please shoot

Greetings