No event sounds in XFCE 4.6.2 on Debian Sid (maybe Slackers can help?)
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by TobiSGD
To all Slackers, just one question, do you have event sounds in your XFCE working? I would like to know if my problem is related to Debian or XFCE, before asking at the XFCE-mailinglist.
I may have missed it, but I wasn't aware Xfce 4.62 "natively" supports events sounds. Perhaps that is something that can be added, but there is nothing in the Settings Manager for event sounds.
However, I have added a start-up sound in the "Session and Startup" under the "Application Autostart" tab.
Click on the + button and a menu will pop up. In there give it a name and in the command box put,
play /pathtosound/soundname
To add a volume level you can add vol x to end of the line above, e.g.,
play /pathtosound/soundname vol 4
Last edited by cwizardone; 01-24-2011 at 12:15 PM.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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To all Slackers, just one question, do you have event sounds in your XFCE working? I would like to know if my problem is related to Debian or XFCE, before asking at the XFCE-mailinglist.
You might want to post this message in the Slackware forum. They are usually very helpful.
I may have missed it, but I wasn't aware Xfce 4.62 "natively" supports events sounds. Perhaps that is something that can be added, but there is nothing in the Settings Manager for event sounds.
You can enable them under the Settings-tab in the Appearance-dialog. Your advice with the starting sound is good, but not really what I am looking for.
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I see in your signature your machine also runs Arch.
You could install Xfce under Arch and see if you have system sounds there.
Arch has already XFCE 4.8, so I don't know if it is a Debian or XFCE issue if I try it there.
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You can enable them under the Settings-tab in the Appearance-dialog....
Not in any of the Xfce builds for Slackware I've used. Maybe that is particular to your Linux distribution?
Generally, as a rule, the developers of Slackware do not modify a package other than to ensure it will run in Slackware.
Last edited by cwizardone; 01-24-2011 at 03:37 PM.
That confuses me a little bit, since the event sounds came from upstream, as stated in the XFCE blog. So I don't think that these settings are only specific to Debian.
As aptosid is based on sid I would assume that it is not a Debian issue. So now I would like to know what the differences are between yours and mine configuration. I think I will make an aptosid install into a VM to compare that. Did you simply installed XFCE on aptosid? AFAIK it comes with KDE as DE.
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Not in any of the Xfce builds for Slackware I've used. Maybe that is particular to your Linux distribution?
Generally, as a rule, the developers of Slackware do not modify a package other than to ensure it will run in Slackware.
You may very well be correct, but I've never seen it in any of the Slackware specific builds of Xfce.
Hi,
I'm running aptosid (among others), with xfce. I dislike system sounds, but to test I did what you did, viz:
logged out and back in again, and lo! the damn thing beeps at me. Ugh!
I don't get it. I just downloaded aptosid and ran it live in a VM. I made sure that sound works and enabled the event sounds, logged out and in again, and it doesn't work. I can't see what I am doing wrong.
As aptosid is based on sid I would assume that it is not a Debian issue. So now I would like to know what the differences are between yours and mine configuration. I think I will make an aptosid install into a VM to compare that. Did you simply installed XFCE on aptosid? AFAIK it comes with KDE as DE.
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