[arch-general] Gnome Sound Events and Settings
What tools are needed in Arch to configure the login and logout sounds for GNOME? When I go into the Volume control, I can only change the alert sounds and that, I can do OK but right now, I cannot get any sounds to work for Login, Logout, e-mail, etc. I've seen references in google for other distros having something called Sound-Preferences or something but I don't see anything like that for Arch. Google also pulled up some forum references to this same question but no answers were ever given. What do other GNOME users do about this in Arch? I'm not aware of how to specify the paths for the right files. Ifound the sound files themselves in /usr/share/sounds but can't figure out where to go from here. Any ideas?
On Saturday, January 22, 2011 09:28:35 am Steve Holmes wrote:
What tools are needed in Arch to configure the login and logout sounds for GNOME?
When I go into the Volume control, I can only change the alert sounds and that, I can do OK but right now, I cannot get any sounds to work for Login, Logout, e-mail, etc. I've seen references in google for other distros having something called Sound-Preferences or something but I don't see anything like that for Arch. Google also pulled up some forum references to this same question but no answers were ever given.
What do other GNOME users do about this in Arch? I'm not aware of how to specify the paths for the right files. Ifound the sound files themselves in /usr/share/sounds but can't figure out where to go from here.
Any ideas?
I encountered this issue a few years ago, when for whatever reason the GNOME developers stripped away sound theming for no reason. Perhaps the option is buried deep within the gconf-editor?
On 01/22/2011 05:28 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
What tools are needed in Arch to configure the login and logout sounds for GNOME?
When I go into the Volume control, I can only change the alert sounds and that, I can do OK but right now, I cannot get any sounds to work for Login, Logout, e-mail, etc. I've seen references in google for other distros having something called Sound-Preferences or something but I don't see anything like that for Arch. Google also pulled up some forum references to this same question but no answers were ever given.
Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome)
What do other GNOME users do about this in Arch? I'm not aware of how to specify the paths for the right files. Ifound the sound files themselves in /usr/share/sounds but can't figure out where to go from here.
Any ideas?
Gnome project relies on sound-theme-freedesktop as the default theme from it. For some reasons they removed the login and logout sound and many more to replace it. That happened more that 1 year ago. If you want sounds, try search a sound theme on gnome-look.org -- Ionuț
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome)
Why pulse audio? I have heard so much bad press about it, I never installed it on my system. I have other facilities on my system that require sound to transcend multiple users like speech dispatcher and screen reader applications that are adversely affected by using pulse audio. I wonder if I could just find and build the sound preferences portion myself with my own package without using pulse? I understand that once pulse is running, you can't use ALSA or anything else at the same time.
Gnome project relies on sound-theme-freedesktop as the default theme from it. For some reasons they removed the login and logout sound and many more to replace it. That happened more that 1 year ago.
If you want sounds, try search a sound theme on gnome-look.org
Actually, I have the borealis package tarball here and was figuring to install it. It is just the sound files though so I need to know how to tell GNOME where to find these files and associate them with the appropriate events. It is these sound events I can't find in GNOME to assign the files.
On 01/22/2011 07:40 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome)
Why pulse audio? I have heard so much bad press about it, I never installed it on my system. I have other facilities on my system that require sound to transcend multiple users like speech dispatcher and screen reader applications that are adversely affected by using pulse audio. I wonder if I could just find and build the sound preferences portion myself with my own package without using pulse? I understand that once pulse is running, you can't use ALSA or anything else at the same time.
lets not start a rant about this. This is what gnome decided long time ago and we actually patched (and is not the arch way) that out to provided gstreamer support over pulse.
Gnome project relies on sound-theme-freedesktop as the default theme from it. For some reasons they removed the login and logout sound and many more to replace it. That happened more that 1 year ago.
If you want sounds, try search a sound theme on gnome-look.org
Actually, I have the borealis package tarball here and was figuring to install it. It is just the sound files though so I need to know how to tell GNOME where to find these files and associate them with the appropriate events. It is these sound events I can't find in GNOME to assign the files.
now that i'm thinking more about it there should be under the volume control a drop down list labeled as Sound theme (and have as entries No sound and Default) and below that where you can select the alert sound. The most annoying thing is that you can't modify the alert sound volume (that is available only with pulse). -- Ionuț
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
lets not start a rant about this. This is what gnome decided long time ago and we actually patched (and is not the arch way) that out to provided gstreamer support over pulse.
Oh, so one could install the gnome-pulse stuff and just not run the pulse daemon? that might be an interesting thing to try. I'll need to examine that package.
now that i'm thinking more about it there should be under the volume control a drop down list labeled as Sound theme (and have as entries No sound and Default) and below that where you can select the alert sound. The most annoying thing is that you can't modify the alert sound volume (that is available only with pulse).
Interesting; I had no idea GNOME was relying so heavily on Pulse Audio. Anyway, I have been through the volume control and see the options you speak of. That is only the general alert sounds though and doesn't include things like Login, logout, etc. These are .ogg files and you can choose between things like Glass, Bark, Sonar, and "No sound". On occasion I hear other sounds during things like errors and questions but haven't yet figured out exactly which files are being used and how chosen. It seems very comvoluted at how to configure sound events in gnome now days.
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
... Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome)
I cannot find pulseaudio-gnome in standard repos. Or I should say, pacman doesn't find such a package. I haven't looked in AUR yet.
On 01/23/2011 09:57 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
... Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome)
I cannot find pulseaudio-gnome in standard repos. Or I should say, pacman doesn't find such a package. I haven't looked in AUR yet.
because is a group. pacman -Sg pulseaudio-gnome -- Ionuț
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