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epsilon72
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 Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject: No sound in thunderbird [SOLVED] |
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I have tried Thunderbird 3.1.1 and 3.1.2, and neither one is able to play sound notifications. I'm not using GNOME (openbox user) - does that have anything to do with it? I've tried several different *.wav files and none of them work.
Does thunderbird need an extra package to play sound notifications?
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Do you have system sounds outside tb?
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epsilon72
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:28 am Post subject: |
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Well, I haven't tried having any sound notifications play outside of thunderbird. I'm in openbox so there aren't really that many programs (besides games, web browsing and multimedia) that play sound.
This is happening on two x86_64 Gentoo boxes by the way, each with a different sound card but both using openbox. |
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Manko10
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Do you have installed esound and emerged Thunderbird with alsa USE flag enabled?
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epsilon72
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Manko10 wrote: | | Do you have installed esound and emerged Thunderbird with alsa USE flag enabled? |
The alsa flag is enabled. Is esound required for the current version of thunderbird? I know that it was in the past, but there's no 'esd' use flag for thunderbird now. |
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Manko10
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Don't know. On my computer esound is installed and sound works in Thunderbird. I'd suggest you to just try this out.
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epsilon72
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Installing and starting esound did the trick. Perhaps the gentoo devs should consider putting an esd use flag or dependency with thunderbird.
EDIT: As of october 21, 2010, esound is no longer necessary, for some reason. |
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| epsilon72 wrote: | | EDIT: As of october 21, 2010, esound is no longer necessary, for some reason. |
I tried the esound solution today. Without esound thunderbird does not make any sound -> esound still needed 
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epsilon72
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| stan666 wrote: | | epsilon72 wrote: | | EDIT: As of october 21, 2010, esound is no longer necessary, for some reason. |
I tried the esound solution today. Without esound thunderbird does not make any sound -> esound still needed |
Yeah, I don't know what's going on either. Sound works fine on my desktop without esound, but my laptop needs it.  |
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epsilon72
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I think I've solved the problem, in xfce 4.8 at least. I opened xfce4-settings-editor, and changed
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to TRUE.
That lets sound play in thunderbird, in xfce, without esound running (for NOW at least - it seems like this situation changes all the time) |
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