Installing freedesktop sound theme in debian

Duffy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:41:45 +0000

I Recently found the 'system sound' tab in gnome-sound-property grayed out my work around to this was to install the freedesktop sound theme.

Firstly remove gnome-audio
```
sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-audio
```

Remove all your old users gconf data related to system sounds
```
sudo rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/desktop/gnome/sound
```

Install some needed packages

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra0 gnome-session-canberra build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev intltool debhelper

Grab the source for freedesktop sound theme from git.debian.org

wget -O freedesktop-sound-theme.tgz 'http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/freedesktop-sound-theme.git;a=snapshot;h=c6773c0c08eeaab03c466dc015d36809dff537bf;sf=tgz'

Unpack and apply some small fixes

tar xzf freedesktop-sound-theme.tgz
cd freedesktop-sound-theme/debian
sed -e 's:touch build:./configure --prefix=/usr \&\& $(MAKE) \&\& &:' rules > tmp; cp tmp rules
sed -e 's:\*:&.ogg:' freedesktop-sound-theme.install > tmp; cp tmp freedesktop-sound-theme.install
rm tmp
cd ../

Build and install the package

sudo dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ../
dpkg -i freedesktop-sound-theme_0.2-1_i386.deb

Invoke gnome-sound-property and configure 'system sound'

gnome-sound-property
then you can select 'system sound' tab

Finally reboot your system and you should be good to go

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Duffy — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:13:08 +0000

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Right click on this link and press bookmark this link
Go to the youtube video you want to download
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