[Solved] [Gnome 3] No event sounds for login/logout, empathy, etc.

Ledti · 2011-04-24 20:27:48

Just like the title says, I have no event sounds. Pulseaudio is working fine so I assume I'm missing some gnome audio package from the repos. I've combed through them but am unable to locate the correct package.

I have gnome-media and all the correct pulse packages:

local/libao 1.1.0-1
local/libcanberra-pulse 0.26-5 (pulseaudio-gnome)
local/libpulse 0.9.22-2
local/paprefs 0.9.9-6
local/pavucontrol 0.9.10-4
local/pulseaudio 0.9.22-2
local/pulseaudio-alsa 1-2 (pulseaudio-gnome)

I noticed that one of libcanberra's .desktop files calls:

/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="desktop-login" --description="GNOME Login"

Running that command from a terminal outputs:

Failed to play sound: File or data not found

Which is the reason I think I'm missing something...? I mainly want the event sounds for Empathy.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Ledti (2011-04-25 02:17:29)

Padfoot · 2011-04-24 23:08:11

You are most likely missing the sound theme itself. libcanberra is just the engine.

Here is what I have installed (bear in mind I have a 64 bit system, so you can ignore multilib entries if you are on 32 bit):

pacman -Qs canberra # the system files required to play system sounds

multilib/lib32-libcanberra 0.26-3
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme 
    Specification (32-bit)
multilib/lib32-libcanberra-pulse 0.26-3
    PulseAudio plugin for libcanberra (32-bit)
testing/libcanberra 0.26-5
    A small and lightweight implementation of the XDG Sound Theme Specification
testing/libcanberra-gstreamer 0.26-5
    GStreamer plugin for libcanberra
testing/libcanberra-pulse 0.26-5 (pulseaudio-gnome)
    PulseAudio plugin for libcanberra

pacman -Qs freedesktop # the default sound theme

extra/sound-theme-freedesktop 0.7-1
    Freedesktop sound theme

Now, in the System Settings GUI, select sound and choose an alert sound other than default (this creates your user defined theme)

Next, in dconf-editor under key: org.gnome.desktop.sound ensure both event-sounds and input-feedback-sounds are ticked, and the theme name is __custom

Now this is done, your system sounds are set up. Place your selected sounds in ~/.local/share/sounds/__custom. Use .wav or .oga files only (.ogg if necessary but this is deprecated).

Of course, you don't have to add any sounds yourself, you can just use the defaults from the freedesktop theme. Just add your sounds if you want to customise the theme to your own.

Here is a list of what your sounds should be called (extracted gtk events from libcanberra source code - system list is incomplete, but gives the vast majority of sounds you may want)

System sounds (look at the freedesktop.org sound theme spec for more possibilities - trial and error will discover what your desktop supports)
   audio-volume-change
   desktop-login
   desktop-logout
   system-ready
   message
   bell
   
GTK event sounds (supported by libcanberra)
   dialog-error
   dialog-warning
   dialog-information
   dialog-question
   window-new
   window-close
   window-minimized
   window-unminimized
   window-maximized
   window-unmaximized
   notebook-tab-changed
   dialog-ok
   dialog-cancel
   item-selected
   link-pressed
   link-released
   button-pressed
   button-released
   menu-click
   button-toggle-on
   button-toggle-off
   menu-popup
   menu-popdown
   menu-replace
   tooltip-popup
   tooltip-popdown
   drag-start
   drag-accept
   drag-fail
   expander-toggle-on
   expander-toggle-off

Cheers

Last edited by Padfoot (2011-04-24 23:21:50)

Ledti · 2011-04-25 02:17:04

Yep, thanks. It was the sound-theme-freedesktop package... It's no surprise I didn't find it though, it's not mentioned anywhere that I can see.

Thanks for the help.

billy · 2011-06-22 19:18:27

I recently had to change id from "desktop-login" to "login" so that it started working again:

/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="login" --description="GNOME Login"

wonder · 2011-06-22 19:22:09

billy wrote:

I recently had to change id from "desktop-login" to "login" so that it started working again:
/usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play --id="login" --description="GNOME Login"

in fact the id is correct but they dropped the sound couples of years ago from sound-theme-freedesktop with the intention to replace it

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#1 2011-04-24 20:27:48

[Solved] [Gnome 3] No event sounds for login/logout, empathy, etc.

#2 2011-04-24 23:08:11

Re: [Solved] [Gnome 3] No event sounds for login/logout, empathy, etc.

#3 2011-04-25 02:17:04

Re: [Solved] [Gnome 3] No event sounds for login/logout, empathy, etc.

#4 2011-06-22 19:18:27

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