Sound beep not working on ArchLinux

[Daniel Santos]

When I had Manjaro I used this app and I remember the breaks and off-breaks to emit a beeping sound.
Now I'm with ArchLinux and, using this app, I hear no beep. The system sound volume is up and audible.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Hi! I'm hoping this will be fixed in the (upcoming) Break Timer 2.0 release. Currently just doing Flatpak development builds and source releases, but if you're interested you can download them over here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-break-timer/-/tags. It should be on Flathub in the next week or two :)

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Oh, one other thing to check on is whether you have a sound theme installed and enabled. This app expects some sound effects that belong to `sound-theme-freedesktop` (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/sound-theme-freedesktop/). Because sound themes never really took off, that might be a risky assumption. (To be sure, gnome-tweaks has a sound theme option under Appearance, or it's in dconf under `/org/gnome/desktop/sound`). The reference flatpak manifest for the newest version includes the sound theme right there, but for a regular install to your system from source you may need to check on that.

[Dylan McCall (dylanmccall)]

Thank you for the bug report :)

I'm copying this bug report to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-break-timer/-/issues/4. Please feel free to report additional issues over there.