'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 28/12/09 23:43 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 15:45 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Mon, 28.12.09 17:41, 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 >> > A follow-up on this, how do I move event sounds to a different sink? For > other streams I simply use pavucontrol, but it doesn't seem that there's > any selector for the "System Sounds" item. It just selects the > 'normal' (laptop sound card output) and I can't figure a way to move it > to my BT headset without turning the sound card output off. I believe that libcanberra always ensures that event sounds are played on the default sink. Not sure of the inner workings there nor of whether it should be a stream-restore job (it's capable of routing e.g. all event sounds to a given sink, overriding (IIRC) the per-application device rules. Incidentally, when playing with pidgin, are you sure paplay is the right thing to use... in the absence of direct libcanberra support, could you not use "canberra-gtk-play -i message-new-instant" or similar to play the relevant sound from the FDO sound theme naming spec[1] when the appropriate action occurs. I'd imagine writing a libcanberra plugin for purple/pidgin wouldn't be very hard at all... basically just bridging code.... (although this is without the benefit of looking at either set of APIs in any great depth :p) Incidentally Lennart, can you sort out the following: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html : Version says 0.2 at the top, change summary mentions 0.5. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec : Links to the above link as "version 0.3" (not 0.2 or 0.5 as expected!) This is very confusing - can all links and versions linked from the official places please be made to be the most recent versions? Col [1] http://0pointer.de/public/sound-naming-spec.html -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
