No System Sounds

[LambdaFox]

Sound works fine in GNOME mplayer and XBMC. But I get no system sounds.

Lubuntu 14.04 includes LXAppearance 0.5.5 It has a tab labeled "Other". On the Other tab, I have ticked both of these:

Play event sounds

Play event sounds as feedback to user input

I put a sound theme called FreshAndClean in /usr/share/sounds and rebooted. No system sounds to be heard.

I then installed the .deb for Sound Theme Manager. A menu item appeared in my start menu under Preferences for Sound Theme Manager, but when I clicked on it, nothing happened, no error messages or anything. When I opened a terminal and tried sound-theme-manager or sudo sound-theme-manger, I got this Traceback error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sound-theme-manager", line 26, in <module>
from soundtheme import SoundTheme
File "/usr/share/pyshared/soundtheme.py", line 27, in <module>
import gconf
ImportError: No module named gconf

Googling that error led me to install python-gnome2-python-desktop-dev from Synaptic Package Manager to fix that.

Afterward, when I ran Sound Theme Manager in the terminal, I got canberra-gtk-play: not found.

Installing gnome-session-canberra from Synaptic Package Manger took care of that. I can now edit settings and save with the application. When I reboot, I still get no sounds.

Enabling Pulse Audio Sound System in LXSession and rebooting does not fix this.

sudo apt-get gtk+-2.0 does not fix this

creating .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory containing these lines:
gtk-enable-event-sounds=true
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=true
gtk-sound-theme-name=FreshAndClean

after installling gtk 2.0 does not bring the sounds to life...

I have verified that iNet/EnableEventSounds=1 and iNet/EnableInputFeedbackSounds=1 in /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf and ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf There is no setting in there identifying the FreshAndClear theme, though.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: lxsession 0.4.9.2+git20140410-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun May 4 07:35:24 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-30 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2)
SourcePackage: lxsession
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Fixitman Arizona (fixitmanarizona)]

".deb for Sound Theme Manager" Did you by chance get that from an outside source that is no longer supported? that particular package hasn't worked since about 2009 on *buntu systems! It requires lower versions of libraries no longer available on modern releases.

[Steve Booth (shlivar)]

Attached is an AbiWord document that shows step by step how to enable sound events in Lubuntu 17.10 AMD64. Hopefully it will be helpful for other platforms as well.

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 25, 2019.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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