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BugRaiser

Member

Registered: 2012-06-19

Posts: 39

No sound in Pidgin

I have no sound in Pidgin. After digging on the Internet, using a custom command, with aplay, doesn't work either.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: No sound in Pidgin

The 5 pidgin wav sound files are not in the slitaz repo.

Copy them from another source to /usr/share/sounds/purple

Launch pidgin, ctrl+p to open preferences,Sounds tab on left

Method Command: aplay %s

Highlight an event in Sound Events

Click Preview button to hear applicable sound for that event.

BugRaiser

Member

Registered: 2012-06-19

Posts: 39

Re: No sound in Pidgin

Thanks, Mojo. This fixed it.

For anyone else who encounters this issue, here's what I did:

1. sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/sounds/purple

2. copied the 5 default wav files from a Windows installation of Pidgin (alert.wav, login.wav, logout.wav, receive.wav, send.wav): sudo cp /path/to/windows_program_files/Pidgin/sounds/purple /usr/share/sounds/purple

3. go to Pidgin preferences -> Sounds -> Method = Command -> sound command = aplay -q %s

4. verified every wav file works by pressing Preview button

Of course, one can put the wav files anywhere, provided they change the path to every sound event by selecting Browse and pointing to where the wav files really are, but putting the wav files in /usr/share/sounds/purple ensures all users of the system can have sounds in Pidgin.