Hi Onyeibo,

which theme have you installed?
I tried some but nothing.
If I send a notification with this command

notify-send  "SUMMARY" "BODY"


I get no sound!
I'm still looking for a workaround!
I think that it's a terrible limitation of gnome-shell, that I love for the
rest...

TIA

Donato



On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Onyeibo Oku <twoho...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 2015-11-30 at 18:54 +0100, Donato Marrazzo wrote:
>
> I see...
> And what about to handle a default sound? When the application does not
> specify it?
> Thank you
>
>
> I suppose that depends on the sound-theme.  If the active sound-theme
> provides audio for generic notifications, you should hear one.
> I get audible notifications for incoming mails, alerts etc.  but that is
> because I have a sound-theme that provides those.
>
> We were enthusiastic about packaging comprehensive themes for fedora but
> that adventure was dampened by the realities of life (
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Sound)
>
> Regards
> Onyeibo (twohot)
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuell...@gnome.org>
> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Donato Marrazzo
> <donato.marra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I cannot hear any sound when a notification appear.
> > Is it working as designed?
>
> Yes. The freedesktop notification spec has optional hints to specify a
> sound when the notification is displayed[0]. We support those hints,
> so if a sound is specified, and sounds are not disabled for that
> particular application in notification settings, we play the sound -
> if either of those is not the case, then there won't be a sound (most
> likely the former - in my experience, there are very few apps that do
> specify a sound with notifications).
>
>
> [0] https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/#hints
>
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