On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:38:08PM +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > Sound preferences exists only if you install pulseaudio and > corresponding pulse package for gnome (pacman -S pulseaudio-gnome) Why pulse audio? I have heard so much bad press about it, I never installed it on my system. I have other facilities on my system that require sound to transcend multiple users like speech dispatcher and screen reader applications that are adversely affected by using pulse audio. I wonder if I could just find and build the sound preferences portion myself with my own package without using pulse? I understand that once pulse is running, you can't use ALSA or anything else at the same time. > Gnome project relies on sound-theme-freedesktop as the default theme > from it. For some reasons they removed the login and logout sound > and many more to replace it. That happened more that 1 year ago. > > If you want sounds, try search a sound theme on gnome-look.org Actually, I have the borealis package tarball here and was figuring to install it. It is just the sound files though so I need to know how to tell GNOME where to find these files and associate them with the appropriate events. It is these sound events I can't find in GNOME to assign the files.
