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System Sounds A Mystery...

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 4:24 pm
by LambdaFox
Sound works fine in GNOME mplayer and XBMC. But I get no system sounds.

Lubuntu 14.04 includes LXAppearance 0.5.5 It has a tab labeled "Other". On the Other tab, I have ticked both of these:

Play event sounds

Play event sounds as feedback to user input

I put a sound theme called FreshAndClean in /usr/share/sounds and rebooted. No system sounds to be heard.

I then installed the .deb for Sound Theme Manager. A menu item appeared in my start menu under Preferences for Sound Theme Manager, but when I clicked on it, nothing happened, no error messages or anything. When I opened a terminal and tried sound-theme-manager or sudo sound-theme-manger, I got this Traceback error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sound-theme-manager", line 26, in <module>
from soundtheme import SoundTheme
File "/usr/share/pyshared/soundtheme.py", line 27, in <module>
import gconf
ImportError: No module named gconf

Googling that error led me to install python-gnome2-python-desktop-dev from Synaptic Package Manager to fix that.

Afterward, when I ran Sound Theme Manager in the terminal, I got canberra-gtk-play: not found.

Installing gnome-session-canberra from Synaptic Package Manger took care of that. I can now edit settings and save with the application. When I reboot, I still get no sounds.

Maybe something needs to be added to startup???

Enabling Pulse Audio Sound System in LXSession and rebooting does not fix this.

sudo apt-get gtk+-2.0 does not fix this

creating .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory containing these lines:
gtk-enable-event-sounds=true
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=true
gtk-sound-theme-name=FreshAndClean

after installling gtk 2.0 does not bring the sounds to life...

I have verified that iNet/EnableEventSounds=1 and iNet/EnableInputFeedbackSounds=1 in /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf and ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf

There is no setting in there identifying the FreshAndClear theme, though.

I am looking for leads. What if any underlying software / packages need to be installed for the "Play event sounds" and "Play event sounds as feedback to user input" to work?

Re: System Sounds A Mystery...

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:13 pm
by Rex Bouwense
See this site
http://lxlinux.com/#15
It was created and is maintained by seppalta, a frequent contributor to this forum.
The last line of #15 reads
Computer alert sounds can be turned off by changing the two iNet entries in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf from 1 to 0. In this address, LXDE may be replaced by the operating system name.
Make sure that yours are 1 and not 0.

Re: System Sounds A Mystery...

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:34 am
by LambdaFox
Rex Bouwense wrote:See this site
http://lxlinux.com/#15
It was created and is maintained by seppalta, a frequent contributor to this forum.
The last line of #15 reads
Computer alert sounds can be turned off by changing the two iNet entries in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/desktop.conf from 1 to 0. In this address, LXDE may be replaced by the operating system name.
Make sure that yours are 1 and not 0.
Both values are already set to 1 in both locations.

Re: System Sounds A Mystery...

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 11:40 am
by LambdaFox
I posted this as a bug this morning.

Re: System Sounds A Mystery...

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 3:19 pm
by Rex Bouwense
oops!!