xfce sound

[Mike Massonnet]

2010/1/31 Dirk Jakobsmeier <dirk.jakobsmeier at web.de>:
> Hello Doug,
>
> Am 31.01.2010 06:29, schrieb Doug Laidlaw:
>> On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:10:42 pm Dirk Jakobsmeier wrote:
>>> I´ve installed the 4.6.1 version over my kubuntu distribution (will use
>>> xubuntu in the future)
>>>
>> I can't find it now, but I am sure that it is there.
>
> So this is exactly what i wanted to know. It is possible to turn it on.

the switch to turn it on/off is in the appearance settings
(xfce4-appearance-settings), in the last tab. The sound events work
with libcanberra[0] and it needs a sound event theme like
sound-theme-freedesktop[1].

I never tested this, but at least here are some hopefully useful pointers :-)

[0] http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/
[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec

-- 
Mike