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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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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How do I turn off click-button sounds in KDE in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

When I click on buttons in Chrome or various other buttons in KDE on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise LTS blahblahblah, a sound is made. I can't seem to find a way to turn off these click noises. I really want to turn them off. I like my silence.
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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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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 edited by hand, or is there an application that can access…
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Where Does the Ubuntu "System Ready" Drum Roll Come From?

Was it sampled from a song? Was it created as original content for the operating system?
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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 sound in the applications work fine as usual.…
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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 new sound theme in System Settings → Sound. I've…
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How do I turn on the login startup sound theme?

Possible Duplicate: How can I enable the old Africa Savana sound at the boot of Ubuntu 12.04? I remember old releases of Ubuntu, when started you got these African drums initiating your session. Now, (12.04 or 12.10) I do not hear them any more.…
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Remove Full Battery Alert Tone in Ubuntu 18.04?

I somehow activated the "full battery" alert tone in Ubuntu 18.04, now I want to disable it since my battery has gone faulty and it rings often and is loud too. How can I remove that tone or how can I disable the service that is looking after…
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How to add a custom alert sound in Unity

I am using Ubuntu 14.04. How to add custom alert sound in Ubuntu Unity ? Note: my question is not how to play music via terminal. I can use play command from sox package. Also not make-a-sound-once-process-is-complete For better clarity this link…
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Add clipboard event sounds

How can I add sound when system clipboard is updated? I use xclip under tmux, but other apps probably don't. Which interface should I use? Ideally this should work on all window managers (unless there is good reason against that idea).
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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 button in the system settings, the login jingle,…
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