On Mon, 28.12.09 23:14, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote: > > > Is there a way to specify a sound to be a 'system sound' as defined by > > > System Sounds on pavucontrol, when played by paplay? > > > > > > If so, then programs such as pidgin which allow playing event > > > notifications through a command would be useable without modification. > > > > paplay --property=media.role=event ... > > > > Lennart > > > Thanks Lennart. man paplay doesn't show that syntax... is it a > relatively recent addition? Kinda. "paplay --help" shows it. Patches for the man pages (same way as for the code) always appreciated! ;-) > And I can confirm that works fine with pidgin, should I add it to the > wiki? Considering once in a while the question "how do I adjust my > pidgin volume when the sounds are so damn short" keeps popping up again > and again. Sure, please do. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
