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No system sounds

Postby Roaring Silence » 2009-07-04 20:32

I have just done a minimal Debian Lenny install with LXDE using the net installer, but I can find no system sounds. Where can I get some good system sound *.wav files, bells and whistles and that sort of thing to drop into /usr/share/sounds folder?
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Re: No system sounds

Postby Roaring Silence » 2009-07-04 21:16

OK, I have found a few at Gnome-Look.org: http://gnome-look.org/, which looks like a wonderful resource site, but any more suggestions would be welcome.

Unfortunately, I cannot get these sounds to play with the LXDE Login Window manager. When I test the sounds they won't playback, although internet audio is working on the system. I am using ALSA. Am I perhaps missing a package, or is there some CLI magic I must perform?

Any suggestions on either matter would be welcome. Thanks.
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Re: No system sounds

Postby lancelot » 2009-07-05 08:37

Flash works for me with 4.2.2 using flashplayer-mozilla.

EDIT: sorry, I posted this in the wrong thread
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Re: No system sounds

Postby Roaring Silence » 2009-07-07 16:24

I have managed to get some system sounds to work. I have enabled SoundOnLoginSuccess & SoundOnLoginSuccessFile in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf with this in the Greeter section:

[greeter]
SoundOnLoginSuccess=true
SoundOnLoginSuccessFile=/usr/share/sounds/Clean/startup.wav


Similarly sound on login error is enabled with this in the same section:
SoundOnLoginFailure=true
SoundOnLoginFailureFile=/usr/share/sounds/Clean/error.wav


I also had to uncomment the line in the daemon section and change it to:
[daemon]
SoundProgram=/usr/bin/aplay


After updating I run these commands in a terminal:
gdmflexiserver --command="UPDATE_CONFIG daemon/AddGtkModules"
then:
gdmflexiserver --command="UPDATE_CONFIG daemon/GtkModulesList"
finally:
invoke-rc.d gdm reload

This has given me two system sounds - a startup sound and an error on login sound.

I also disabled the annoying system beep at login and at shutdown with this in a terminal:
leafpad /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
{instead of 'leafpad' you might use 'gedit' 'kate' 'kwrite' or whatever your text-editor happens to be}
And then added this to the blacklist file:

#annoying speaker beep
blacklist pcspkr


I saved the file and the speaker beep was gone when I rebooted

However, these commands in the [greeter] section do not seem to work:
SoundOnLogin=true
SoundOnLoginFile=/usr/share/sounds/Clean/login.wav


It seems that on the Lenny version of Debian, using whatever version of GDM it is that they use, Login and Logout sounds are handled in a different way. I thought that they might be managed by /etc/sound/events/gnome-2.soundlist. I edited this and gave the path to the sounds that I wanted to use for the various system events listed. But neither login, nor logout sounds were obtained by doing this.

What am I doing wrong?
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