Dec
7
For some reason, Pidgin, which is included in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, has no notification sounds even though other applications do play properly. Whether I selected Automatic or ALSA as the output method, no sounds would play. Here’s how I fixed it.
- In Pidgin, select Preferences from the Tools menu (or press Ctrl+P)
- Click on the Sounds tab
- In the Method drop down list, select Command
- In the Sound command text box, enter the following: aplay %s
- Select an event with an assigned sound from the Sound Events list
- Click the Test button. You should now hear the notification sound
- Click the Close button
Aplay is the command-line ALSA sound player. I tested it on the command line and it played audio files just fine. So, it also works in Pidgin.
Tags: how-to, Linux, Pidgin, Ubuntu
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worked perfect! Kubuntu 7.10.
Great! I’m using Kubuntu 7.10 as well.
works great in gentoo aswell
Yes, should work fine on any distro. If you don’t have aplay, you can also try other command-line players.
Worked great! Kubuntu 7.10, also.
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Thanks worked great
You’re welcome, Miles.
You rucking fock, dude!
Thanks D-FENS. That’s an interesting technique to get around the content filter :)
freaking thank you.
You’re welcome, Dustin.
worked here too, using kubuntu 8.04. thanks.
I haven’t yet upgraded to 8.04. Surprised to hear that the fix is still needed. Glad it’s working.
sweet! I was wondering why it stopped playing after the upgrade.
Thanks man, worked like a charm…
Thanks, solved my problem. I used wavplay, but that won’t work as soon as I was listening to music (‘device busy’). With aplay it works.
awesome. it worked in ubuntu also.
Great tip!
Works in Kubuntu 8.10.
Thanks!
it does!
great! works with Arch too
Hey dude!
THANK YOU!
I’m searching for 3 hours to fix that. You get it! I can hear now my sound. :D
Great!
You’re welcome, marcus. Glad it helped.
Works fine in Fedora 10 too. Thanks a lot, mate!
Good to know. Thanks teapot.
works perfectly! sound was already there, but when set to “Automatic,” i would lose sound only in Pidgin from time to time. a restart of Pidgin would solve it. last time it dropped, i searched google and found this. i can toggle between “Automatic” and “Command” + aplay %s and the latter always works.
shanks!
Ubuntu 8.10 – the Intrepid Ibex
Thanks a lot! Works on Kubuntu 9.04, too :)
I’m using Kubuntu 8.04 LTS, and this is exactly what I was looking for – thanks!!
Fixed pidgin sounds for me in kubuntu 9.10[*], as well. Huzzah!
[*] yes, I know karmic is development/unstable right now, but it was broken in 9.04 as well.
Wow, didn’t know it was still an issue. Good to hear you were able to get sound working. Hopefully, it’ll be resolved soon.
This fix works in Karmic as well, thank you!!
Well its pretty clear that this fix works with any pidgin install that doesnt have sound, but i’ll say it anyway. Worked with puppy linux 4.3.1 thanks!
Works for OpenSUSE, too.
Nice job! Wish the Pidgin developers had done a better job of testing and configuring it before they released it. Doesn’t reflect well on their software development methodology….