No sound alert with incoming email

[Kansasman]

Linux Mint (which is based on Ubuntu Jaunty).

No sound when email comes in in Thunderbird

It's turned on in Tbird

In the "sound preferences" in "control center", the "devices" "sound events", "music and Movies", "audio conferencing" all say "auto detect", except for "sound capture" which is on ALSA, Advanced linux sound capture. But no matter what the combination, I can't get the sould on (yep, computer volume control is on and not muted)

All "TEST" buttons yield sounds except in "sound capture"
??? TIA

[D-cat]

Do other applications have sound?

If so, with Thunderbird,
did you specify a file to play, or are you telling it to sound the system bell?

My setup has a custom wav file play, no problems so far.

[Kansasman]

Thanks for your response,
In Edit>Preferences I just have "play a sound" checked, and "default system sound for new mail" checked. Would appreciate knowing what kind of files could be used (downloaded?) for "use the following sound file". TIA

yep, other things have sound, youtube, Linux Mint intro sound, etc

[D-cat]

I've had the bell be silent before, I think that's why I defined the file to play. I believe any wave and most ogg files will play. You have a system directory of sounds you can choose from (I run KDE, so I use the KDE_notify.wav - just a bell).

You'll find sounds you can use in the /opt/(platform)/share/sounds or in the various sub directories of /usr/share/sounds. Many games and other programs also have sounds available that you might rather use. Just look through your hard drive, you're apt to find something.

For a complete list of wav files on your computer, type in a terminal:

locate -i \.wav

of if you do not have findutils installed (this is slower, but same result):

find / | grep -i \.wav

Enjoy.

[Kansasman]

Thanks so much for your help. I am new (again) to Linux, and am just getting starting, again, terminal commands, and learn by doing.

I did download:

/home/ht/Desktop/LucyBall-Wellletsseewhatsinthemail.wav

from sounds4email.com
and it's very annoying, but works. (will be changed)

ht