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dbrief

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Registered: 2020-01-21

Posts: 16

Can't get sound working in gajim (solved)

Audio output device is properly set to my default device pulseaudio.

When I google for clues I see some talk of being able to set the soundplayer, yet I see no such way to configure the option in preferences. Nor is there a soundplayer in the config file or settings.sqlite.

I've tried both gajim git and the latest gajim in arch.

When I open the notification sounds in setting and try to play them I hear nothing. I can play those sound files from command line using aplay -q or paplay just fine. I read somewhere that aplay -q is the gajim default but I don't see where this option is.

Anyone know what happened to the soundplayer option in gajim or how I can fix this?

Last edited by dbrief (2021-01-17 11:50:48)

someUser

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Registered: 2021-01-03

Posts: 21

Re: Can't get sound working in gajim (solved)

Gajim should provide information what is missing, in Gajim see Help->Features.

But to answer your question, you are probably missing gsound. It's an optional dependency Arch Linux currently doesn't list, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67333.

dbrief

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Registered: 2020-01-21

Posts: 16

Re: Can't get sound working in gajim (solved)

Gajim should provide information what is missing, in Gajim see Help->Features.

But to answer your question, you are probably missing gsound. It's an optional dependency Arch Linux currently doesn't list, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67333.

Thank you for creating an account to reply to my question. You've been a great help!