Event sounds

Crippled · 2015-10-13 05:12:31

I am using xfce 4.10 and would like to know how to change event sounds.

ToZ · 2015-10-13 10:17:06

Hello and welcome.

Have a read through this thread to get you started. Post back if you have any issues.

Crippled · 2015-10-14 00:43:46

ToZ wrote:

Hello and welcome.
Have a read through this thread to get you started. Post back if you have any issues.

I have openSUSE 13.2 XFCE 4.10 and I found nothing on how to assign a sound to a specific event from your links. I have event sounds enabled. I get only 2 different sounds, a beep sound and a thump sound but nothing else.

ToZ · 2015-10-14 01:11:35

Xfce follows the freedesktop sound specification.

This specification identifies certain sound events (see spec).

This is implemented using libcanberra. libcanberra only supports some of those sound events:

/*
We generate these sounds:
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
TODO:
scroll-xxx
window-switch
window-resize-xxx
window-move-xxx
*/

So in a nutshell, you need to create files using the supported names in the proper theme file location for them to work. Unfortunately, no front-end GUI exists (that I am aware of) that automates and/or simplifies this process for you.

Crippled · 2015-10-14 01:33:24

Thanks. That sucks because in Windows it was easy. When I tried KDE I could at least assign a sound. I guess it is what it is and I will just live with it.

MountainDewManiac · 2015-10-14 05:15:44

ToZ wrote:

Xfce follows the freedesktop sound specification.
This specification identifies certain sound events (see spec).
This is implemented using libcanberra. libcanberra only supports some of those sound events:
/*
We generate these sounds:

ToZ wrote:

Unfortunately, no front-end GUI exists (that I am aware of) that automates and/or simplifies this process for you.

Since it follows the freedesktop sound specification - albeit, for a limited number of sound event types - could a person use the GUI sound notification from another DE to do this? Or would there be too much difference. I saw the KDE one mentioned in another thread, which caused me to ask.

Regards,
MDM

ToZ · 2015-10-14 10:17:52

MountainDewManiac wrote:

Since it follows the freedesktop sound specification - albeit, for a limited number of sound event types - could a person use the GUI sound notification from another DE to do this? Or would there be too much difference. I saw the KDE one mentioned in another thread, which caused me to ask.

That would depend on how KDE implemented sound events - whether it also follows the freedesktop standard or whether it uses its own method of sound event management.

Crippled · 2015-10-14 15:29:33

ToZ wrote:

MountainDewManiac wrote:
Since it follows the freedesktop sound specification - albeit, for a limited number of sound event types - could a person use the GUI sound notification from another DE to do this? Or would there be too much difference. I saw the KDE one mentioned in another thread, which caused me to ask.
That would depend on how KDE implemented sound events - whether it also follows the freedesktop standard or whether it uses its own method of sound event management.

Like this. https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=39117#p39117

Sideburns · 2015-10-14 19:57:25

I use Fedora, and I'm currently on Xfce 4.10. I managed to get sounds activated at one point, and have the sounds for Notifications and Email active, but I don't remember how. I do know that there was a GUI for it, and that it would only accept certain kinds of sound files (and maybe, only some of those) but it was several years ago, and I don't remember right now how I did it.

Crippled · 2015-10-14 21:22:23

Sideburns wrote:

I use Fedora, and I'm currently on Xfce 4.10. I managed to get sounds activated at one point, and have the sounds for Notifications and Email active, but I don't remember how. I do know that there was a GUI for it, and that it would only accept certain kinds of sound files (and maybe, only some of those) but it was several years ago, and I don't remember right now how I did it.

It's too bad you can't remember. The only custom sound I have is for Thunderbird because their is a setting in there to do that. This is the only thing I miss from when I used Windows. I can live with it but it would be nice to have that ability. Hopefully the xfce team will come out with that feature in the future.

Sideburns · 2015-10-14 21:33:19

As it happens, I found the other thread and responded there. Alas, no GUI.

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