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shallpion Guru
Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 331
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Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2011 9:04 pm Post subject: thunderbird sound issue |
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I recently noticed that if I allow thunderbird to play a wav sound alert for new message, the entire program (I mean thunderbird ) will be frozen for a moment while it is playing the sound. I cannot switch tabs, cannot type in editing area, basically the entire thunderbird loses response as long as the wav sound is not over. This even affects other programs. While thunderbird playing the sound, if I drag another program's window, there will be significant lag until the sound is over.
Is this my own problem or thunderbird's defect?
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charles17 Advocate
Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3664
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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For playing any sound email notification Thunderbird definitely needs media-sound/esound.
So I would expect an esound USE flag as runtime dependency for supporting the sound notification. |
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shallpion Guru
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for you suggestion. I have esound installed, and it looks there is not esound USE for thunderbird |
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teknocrust n00b
Joined: 03 Feb 2013 Posts: 11
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:15 pm Post subject: Thunderbird-17.0 |
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Hey, does anyone know if this is still relavant on thunderbird-17.0.2??
I am having no sound / notification issues, and trying to figure out if there is some hidden dependency i'm missing..
PS: esound is long since dead i think.. and I am NOT going to install pulseaudio just to use this..
Thanks!! any tips would be great! |
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Fitzcarraldo Advocate
Joined: 30 Aug 2008 Posts: 2034 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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esound is no longer used by Thunderbird: see esound replacement?
Do you have libcanberra installed? (And is the libnotify USE flag set in Thunderbird, as I think that also has a bearing on this?) _________________ Clevo W230SS: amd64, VIDEO_CARDS="intel modesetting nvidia".
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sk3l Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 78 Location: CT USA
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Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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FYI I just switched to Thunderbird from KMail. Despite enabling both the libnotify & alsa USE flags, libcanberra wasn't pulled in. As a result, there was no mail sound alert until I manually emerged libcanberra. I don't see any way to influence this behavior through the current set of USE flags. |
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