Skype makes sounds when friends log off, log on, and other times. The sounds skype makes are played for only a second. pavucontrol lists skype for that brief period. This is not enough time to change the volume at which skype makes those sounds. Make this possible.
I asked on the pulseaudio mailing list, will let you know once I hear back from the devs.
The interim answer I got so far is that you can use gnome-control-center to change the volume of all the alert sounds.
There must be some sort of misunderstanding. I just tried that. I have skype running and gnome-control-center open on the Sound icon, with the Applications tab shown. When skype makes a quick beep sound, it shows on the sound window for a brief second and then disappears. How are you supposed to change the volume when it doesn't stay up long enough to even grab the slider?
Actually I just checked, it works with pavucontrol too. Provided you have Skype 4.1 installed, you can control the alerts volume using playback → system sounds.
This barely works. echo '(SayText "Hello")' | festival --pipe It took me several attempts at changing the output with pavucontrol. I don't know if it's ideal to leave the stream displayed longer, but I would take it. Thanks for all you effort on this, Julian.
Created attachment 670753 [details] pavucontrol screenshot with system sounds visible I think the idea is that the short sounds should be tagged as system ones, and as such the slider for them is present permanently.
Thank you. Does festival make system sounds? Who makes that decision and how is that set?
I'm sorry it took me so long to respond. Would it be possible for you to ask this question on PA mailing list [1]? You are likely to get better answers without the middlemen. [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
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