xfce sound

[Dirk Jakobsmeier]

Hello Mike,

Am 31.01.2010 10:43, schrieb 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´ve found this switch already and tried it using libcanberra but never
got a sound. I did not find the info using sound-theme-freedesktop, so
perhaps this was missing. I´ll try it right now and give the answer to
the list if it is working.

> 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

Many thanks for this information.

-- 
Dirk