On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 22:23, Steve Fisher wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting Evolution (1.4.4) to play a sound file for
> new mail notification. Sound works just fine in my other applications.
> The sound file I want to use plays just fine. I get no error message at
> all, just silence. Has anyone gotten this to work?
>
I am not sure if you are using the method where you just say do it on
every message, or are you doing it via a filter. I have tried both, and
was happier was part of a filter. If you are using the one for every
message then I would suggest checking for the sound daemons esd and arts
which may be getting in the way. If you happen to be using KDE then you
may have a problem with arts conflicting with Evolution wanting to run
esd too. If your sound card only supports playing one wav at a time, you
may have an issue with Evolution trying to play directly, but a sound
daemon is preventing it. You could also use strace on evolution to find
where it tries to access the sound device. It will scroll way to fast so
you will need to write it to a file and then read/filter through it for
what you are looking for. Something like the example below should work.
strace evolution >~/evolution.log 2>&1
If you are using it as part of a filter try making the filter really
broad and making it the first rule. Then move it down and make it less
broad till you figure what rule overrides it in it's normal position.
Filtering rules can get complex fast.
If you are using the every message method I would suggest switching
to the filter method. I quickly found I really didn't care to get a
sound every time I got a message. Especially for when times when a lot
of messages came in at once, and it would play them in rapid succession.
Even with a slight delay to make them sound like it plays the wav over
and over it gets old fast. The method I ended up using is I had it
bypass all the spam and mailing lists. Leaving the low volume stuff like
friends, co-workers, family, and clients. I also ended up disabling it
at work since my co-workers around me(would be nice to have an office)
quickly got annoyed by it.
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