Empathy Sound Issues?

[MrFairladyz]

I have all sounds and notifications enabled to always go off (even when away/busy) in Empathy. There are no sounds coming from it at all. Any ideas on how to resolve this?

[AreEK]

Do you get any sound from your system at all?

[MrFairladyz]

yeah everything works just fine except for empathy

[arindom]

I am also not getting any sound notification from Empathy.

[sergiom99]

Yes me too. Heres my config snapshot.
But i gues its all related to this: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#he...db064e5632228e

Any ideas?

[jdackle]

Yes me too. Heres my config snapshot.
But i gues its all related to this: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#he...db064e5632228e

Any ideas?

The sound-theme they link to download from that FAQ-page is void of any sound-files actually! It also has an installer that does nothing...
Besides, I have no way to select a sound-theme from empathy's interface either.

Isn't there some package for say Debian that correctly installs just the sounds for events for empathy?
Or maybe a proper howto on where to get sound-themes from and HOW to correctly install them for empathy?

[sergiom99]

There's a .deb package of it in [1].
It installed Ok, but there's no place to change the sounds of non-KDE apps in Kubuntu, so I couldnt try it.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~cheleb/+archive/ppa

[jdackle]

There's a .deb package of it in [1].
It installed Ok, but there's no place to change the sounds of non-KDE apps in Kubuntu, so I couldnt try it.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~cheleb/+archive/ppa

Thanks a lot , sergiom99 !

The sounds were correctly installed through the sound-theme-freedesktop package.
After that, I had to go to the Panel-menu to System -> Preferences -> Sound and then to the Sounds tab and select the Default theme instead of Ubuntu. So, the sound-theme change actually happens in the general desktop sounds, not just in empathy.

After that, empathy was issuing the sound events as expected.

Thanks

[frogotronic]

This appears to be working for me as well.

[haydemon]

I tried it and I still cannot get sound notifications from Empathy. Running Lucid Lynx.