#647 No System Sounds in Lubuntu 14.04

[Randy]

After a fresh install, Sound works fine in GNOME mplayer and XBMC. But I get no system sounds.

Lubuntu 14.04 includes LXAppearance 0.5.5 It has a tab labeled "Other". On the Other tab, I have ticked both of these:

Play event sounds

Play event sounds as feedback to user input

I put a sound theme called FreshAndClean in /usr/share/sounds and rebooted. No system sounds to be heard.

I then installed the .deb for Sound Theme Manager. A menu item appeared in my start menu under Preferences for Sound Theme Manager, but when I clicked on it, nothing happened, no error messages or anything. When I opened a terminal and tried sound-theme-manager or sudo sound-theme-manger, I got this Traceback error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sound-theme-manager", line 26, in <module>
from soundtheme import SoundTheme
File "/usr/share/pyshared/soundtheme.py", line 27, in <module>
import gconf
ImportError: No module named gconf

Googling that error led me to install python-gnome2-python-desktop-dev from Synaptic Package Manager to fix that.

Afterward, when I ran Sound Theme Manager in the terminal, I got canberra-gtk-play: not found.

Installing gnome-session-canberra from Synaptic Package Manger took care of that. I can now edit settings and save with the application. When I reboot, I still get no sounds.

Enabling Pulse Audio Sound System in LXSession and rebooting does not fix this.

sudo apt-get gtk+-2.0 does not fix this

creating .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory containing these lines:
gtk-enable-event-sounds=true
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=true
gtk-sound-theme-name=FreshAndClean

after installling gtk 2.0 does not bring the sounds to life...

I have verified that iNet/EnableEventSounds=1 and iNet/EnableInputFeedbackSounds=1 in /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf and ~/.config/lxsession/Lubuntu/desktop.conf There is no setting in there identifying the FreshAndClear theme, though.

[Randy]

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