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I'm running xubuntu 16.04, and I have noticed something strange. Whenever I change the volume, there is no tone that sort of lets me know how loud it is. It makes me think that my sound is not working when it is. I have to go to youtube or something just to confirm.

I tried looking aorund but it seems like a strange problem so it's hard to find. Any help is appreciated.

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Okay so I made some progress.. When I open the sound settings, it makes a notification sound (after installing sox & gnome-session-canberra), but when I use the one on the panel no sound, any ideas? – sluginfinite May 4 '17 at 18:28
    
The sound notifications will work from within the default PulseAudio sound settings (pavucontrol) even without installing sox and gnome-session-canberra. I can confirm this. The problem is with how Xubuntu handles notifications from the system tray. Check this related question. I think it is a bug in the distro. Can you please tell me if you see the brightness indicator notification when you try to change the brightness from the notification panel by scrolling with your mouse (not by keyboard shortcut or dragging buttons within the applet)? – Nanashi No Gombe Jul 3 '17 at 20:50
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Using UbuntuGnome I can find it in the gnome-control-center choosing the audio settings and the register Sound Effects. Be sure to have them enabled as well a s their volume should not be set to 0.

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Okay so I made some progress.. When I open the sound settings, it makes a notification sound (after installing sox & gnome-session-canberra), but when I use the one on the panel no sound, any ideas? – sluginfinite May 4 '17 at 18:28
    
In gnome-control-center tab Output (or Ausgabe in the above pic) there should be a button Test Speakers. – WillemK May 4 '17 at 21:58
    
When using the one in the panel I am also having no notification sound at all. Just when using the mediakeys. There's a pop up, a soundlevel bar and notification sound when turning the volume up and down. There's no sound using the panal indicator while scrolling. Just when clicking the bar that's popping up when I'm using the indicator. – starkus May 5 '17 at 4:47
    
I think there are some gsettings that need to be set. But i don't know which and I haven't found any string for copy and paste... I'll be trying it at the weekend, because I think this could be a helpful feature. I am not missing it, but I'll give you a comment in here if I found some help. – starkus May 5 '17 at 5:24
    
sorry, no luck finding a solution to let the notification sound pop up simultaneous with increasing or lowering the volume using the scroll wheel of the mouse. – starkus May 6 '17 at 18:32

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