John Gnew wrote these words on 03/28/06 11:44 CST:
I have gone to Edit/Preferences/General/Play an sound, but I can not make Thunderbird play a sound. I am running version 1.5 and have followed the BLFS for the install. And yes my speakers are on and I can play sound from other applications. :)
I too have had issues with this. I believe it has something to do with the default 'player' that Thunderbird uses. And I don't know what it is, I just know that it won't play until I install either KDE or GNOME, then it works. I've not bothered to research it. I do know that on the machine I am typing this message from (a Thunderbird 1.5 build from yesterday), which uses Lesstif's mwm window manager (it is a rather old and slow machine), Thunderbird will beep the speaker when I receive new mail. I've looked thought the Thunderbird config settings to see if there was some way of defining the 'player' it uses (aplay, etc,), but I cannot find anything. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about this will set us straight, John. At least I hope someone does. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 11:49:00 up 3 days, 26 min, 6 users, load average: 0.28, 0.09, 0.15 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
