Questions tagged [sound-theme]

A sound theme is a collection of sounds used by the operating system to accompany various actions or situations.

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Creating system sounds

I'm trying to set up individual system sounds for ubuntu 15.04. I've read some instructions but they're a bit pithy for me. Is there an app to add?
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How do I enable system sounds?

Lately I noticed that there aren't any sounds (beeps, boops, plinks, swooshes, etc.) when I press buttons of any sort or if an event happens, such as opening/closing a tab in chromium, pressing a ...
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How can I play a custom sound when my battery is low?

I want my computer to play a custom sound file when my battery is low (say 10%). How can I do this? Thanks
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How can I change some of the system sounds?

How can I change sounds in Ubuntu? Mainly I mean the sounds for startup, shutdown and warnings.
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How can I disable the event sounds in Kubuntu?

I really don't like the sounds which Kubuntu plays during startup, or during thinks like moving a file to Trash. How can I disable all such notification sounds?
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How do I change startup sound in KDE Plasma?

It's nice that KDE Plasma plays sounds on startup, but that awful click sound (or whatever they call it) is annoying. Anyone know how to change the startup sound in KDE Plasma?
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Can system event sounds be assigned in Ubuntu 14.04, rather than the default system sounds?

I was wondering if there is a way to use custom system event sounds in Ubuntu 14.04? The only settings available in the System Settings → Sounds tab is the default theme. If so, must this be ...
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How do I switch to another sound theme?

I'd like to change default sound theme to ubuntustudio-sounds, but don't understand how to do this.
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Cannot install sound theme in 11.10

I found some tutorials in Google Search about installing new sound theme for Ubuntu, I made a copy sound theme (folder) into /usr/share/sounds. It was easy to copy with commands but I cannot choose ...
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Desktop notification sounds not working after recent upgrades

After recent updates, desktop notification sounds stopped working. For example, sounds in pidgin no longer work. But when I go to Pidgin sound preferences and preview the sounds, they work. Also the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64x Alert Sounds dont work

When using Ubuntu 12.04 i've aquired the need to use the system Alert Sounds. I've been trying to make my SSH Shell play Alert Beeps ( "\a" ) back to me, but to no avail, I finally figured out that ...
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