System sounds shenanigans

pizza_rat · 2022-03-25 21:45:17

Been trying to set up system sounds this morning, here's what I've done from other threads I've read on here:

- Enabled event sounds and input feedback sounds in appearance settings
- Set freedesktop as the sound theme in xsettings
- Installed libcanberra (on Arch)
- Checked that system sounds volume in pavucontrol is set to 100%

The result is that system sounds still aren't playing. For example, I can play the trash-empty sound through canberra-gtk-play just fine, but it doesn't play when I actually empty the trashbin on my desktop. The only sound I've noticed is actually working through normal usage so far is the little error boop that plays when I try to open "Terminal" through the applications menu because I haven't bothered to point it to urxvt yet and it's still pointing to another terminal I've removed at some point.

Here's the output of some commands, I'm not sure how to do formatting on here so it'll be messy:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/SoundThemeName
gives
freedesktop

env | grep GTK_MODULE
gives
GTK_MODULES=canberra-gtk-module:canberra-gtk-module

ls /usr/share/sounds/$(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/SoundThemeName)/stereo
gives
alarm-clock-elapsed.oga dialog-warning.oga
audio-channel-front-center.oga message-new-instant.oga
audio-channel-front-left.oga    message.oga
audio-channel-front-right.oga    network-connectivity-established.oga
audio-channel-rear-center.oga network-connectivity-lost.oga
audio-channel-rear-left.oga    phone-incoming-call.oga
audio-channel-rear-right.oga    phone-outgoing-busy.oga
audio-channel-side-left.oga    phone-outgoing-calling.oga
audio-channel-side-right.oga    power-plug.oga
audio-test-signal.oga    power-unplug.oga
audio-volume-change.oga screen-capture.oga
bell.oga    service-login.oga
camera-shutter.oga    service-logout.oga
complete.oga    suspend-error.oga
device-added.oga    trash-empty.oga
device-removed.oga    window-attention.oga
dialog-error.oga    window-question.oga
dialog-information.oga

which canberra-gtk-play
gives
/usr/sbin/canberra-gtk-play

Any help would be appreciated! I kind of wanted to make my own theme if I could get this working.

ToZ · 2022-03-25 21:55:04

What does the following return:

xfconf-query -c xsettings -lv | grep -i sound

.

which canberra-gtk-play
gives
/usr/sbin/canberra-gtk-play

Thats odd. If this is in Arch, it should be in /usr/bin/. What's in your PATH variable:

echo $PATH

.
Also, install "sound-theme-smooth" from the AUR - it has many more GTK-supported sound files.

agashamu · 2022-03-25 22:07:52

Pizza_rat, freedesktop never worked for me. Try this one instead:
https://www.linux-apps.com/p/1332121
Or this, ToZ's favorit:
https://www.pling.com/p/1187979/
(You might have to convert files to .wav)

pizza_rat · 2022-03-25 22:43:55

xfconf-query -c xsettings -lv | grep -i sound
gives
/Net/EnableEventSounds true
/Net/EnableInputFeedbackSounds true
/Net/SoundThemeName freedesktop

echo $PATH
gives
/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/maou/.local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/cuda/bin:/opt/cuda/nsight_compute:/opt/cuda/nsight_systems/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

I think there was something Arch or Manjaro did a while back regarding sbin and bin, and I think I was late to the party and didn't change or move something I was supposed to as I wasn't using linux much at the time. Wouldn't be the first time it's caused issues for me, and I'm due to reinstall soonish.

And thanks Aga, I'll check that out too.

Last edited by pizza_rat (2022-03-25 22:44:34)

agashamu · 2022-03-25 22:51:13

Also, for trash-empty sound, check this out:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=15505

pizza_rat · 2022-03-25 22:58:45

OK, both Smooth and Enchanted work quite a bit better. Not perfect, but better.

There isn't a way to stop the sound effects being stereo, is there? Getting clicks in only one ear based on what side of the screen I'm on doesn't feel great.

Last edited by pizza_rat (2022-03-25 22:59:03)

agashamu · 2022-03-25 23:52:49

System sounds will never be perfect with Xfce...but better then nothing. Also, sound themes should be edited, there is always some annoying sounds in them that should be killed...or they kill you...
I know nothing about stopping stereo sound effects, sorry.

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