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From: Steve George <steve@futurile.net>
To: Daniel Hatton <dan.hatton@btinternet.com>
Cc: GUIX help list <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Calendar reminder sound in Icedove
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:41:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ditaunjofgr7r3am4ivtqdqwzr5nzs4af2o5yutsulvwqldm@e556butxmjgx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2b762b7-0780-40f3-9a86-1cd64fa3b9a8@btinternet.com>

On 24 Sep, Daniel Hatton wrote:
> 
> I'm having trouble with Icedove [not minimal] on Guix failing to play a
> sound with calendar reminders (setting is to play the default sound). When a
> calendar reminder pops up on screen, Icedove prints the following to STDERR:
> 
> 	console.error: Calendar:
> 	  Error playing alarm sound: [Exception... "Component returned 	
> 	failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)
> 	[nsISound.play]"  nsresult: "0x80040111
> 	(NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)"  location: "JS frame ::
> 	resource:///modules/CalAlarmMonitor.jsm :: onAlarm :: line 125"
> 	data: no]
> 
> Any suggestions for getting it to work, please?
> 

Hi Daniel,

Do other desktop sounds work generally?

I could find some Google references to it only working with some sound files. There's a customise option in Edit->Settings->Calendar. You could try changing that to an Ogg [0]

Futurile / Steve

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/o6j9jv/receiving_a_sound_notification_from_thunderbird/


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-26 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-24 17:02 Calendar reminder sound in Icedove Daniel Hatton
2024-09-24 19:17 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-09-25  5:41 ` Steve George [this message]
2024-09-26 22:18   ` Daniel Hatton

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