xde-sounds

Package xde-sounds-1.2 was released under GPLv3 license 2023-12-09.

This is a set of sounds, primarily window manager sounds and sounds for shutdown and reboot of the system on logout, for the XDE (X Desktop Environment).

Release

This is the xde-sounds-1.2 package, released 2023-12-09. This release, and the latest version, can be obtained from GitHub, using a command such as:

$> git clone https://github.com/bbidulock/xde-sounds.git

Please see the RELEASE and NEWS files for release notes and history of user visible changes for the current version, and the ChangeLog file for a more detailed history of implementation changes. The TODO file lists features not yet implemented and other outstanding items.

Please see the INSTALL file for installation instructions.

When working from git(1), please use this file. An abbreviated installation procedure that works for most applications appears below.

This release is published under GPLv3. Please see the license in the file COPYING.

Quick Start

The quickest and easiest way to get xde-sounds up and running is to run the following commands:

$> git clone https://github.com/bbidulock/xde-sounds.git
$> cd xde-sounds
$> ./autogen.sh
$> ./configure
$> make
$> make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install

This will configure, compile and install xde-sounds the quickest. For those who like to spend the extra 15 seconds reading ./configure --help, some compile time options can be turned on and off before the build.

For general information on GNU's ./configure, see the file INSTALL.

Dependencies

To build and install the package you will need a basic development installation. To build and install the package you will also need the flite(1) speech synthesizer from CMU with a full set of .flitevox voices installed in the /usr/lib/flite directory.

The build and install the package you will also need the sox(1) program to manipulate and apply effects to the resulting synthesized speech files.

Running

Read the manual page after installation:

$> man 7 sound

The package currently installs four sound themes:

freedesktop
It supplements the freedesktop sound theme by adding a full set of standard and enhanced .sound data files.
flite-F
This sound there contains a sound theme of spoken words spoken (by default) by the CMU US SLT female voice.
flite-M
This sound there contains a sound theme of spoken words spoken (by default) by the CMU US RMS male voice.
XDE
The default sound theme for the X Desktop Environment.
Incredibles
A fun theme that includes funny clips and sound effects from the animated movie, "The Incredibles."

To use any of these themes, set your gtk-sound-theme-name to one of the names above in either your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file or your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file (or both).

Enjoy!

Issues

Report issues on GitHub here.

bbidulock / xde-sounds