On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 00:30 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > '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. Hmm, is it then impossible to move event sounds? Doesn't seem like a good way to do it. > 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) canberra-gtk-play doesn't seem to work here, errors out with:- Failed to play sound: Sound disabled I've never used it before, and I believe libcanberra on my system may not even have pulseaudio support compiled in, hence my preference for paplay (I don't use any gnome event sounds).
