Sounds for notify new message

[House]

Hi, Windows Live Messenger makes a sound when a new message arrived and I am not in the conversation window.
aMSN hasn't got this function and I always check if if someone has replied. How can I active this sound in aMSN?

[siller]

configure your global alarms

Account => Configure/Add/Remove Global Alarm...

i'm using Windows so this could be under an other location but i doubt that

[Phil]

No, that's in advanced prefs under the Alerts and Sounds section.

[House]

I tried this:
 

Account => Configure/Add/Remove Global Alarm...

and i tried this:

No, that's in advanced prefs under the Alerts and Sounds section.

but nothing...
I discovered that no sound of aMSN is active. The sound system is active so it is a problem of aMSN.

[Cypher]

In case you're using KDE4, that's normal you're not getting any sound. Libsnack does not work, and play/artsplay commands do not use Phonon, thus do not produce any sound. One solution would to use a library to bridge aMSN to Phonon, another one would be to use phononplay instead of play/artsplay as the play command (however, I cannot find that command on my system... but it is present in the KDE svn trunk, so it should be available, at least in the near future).

[House]

I use Ubuntu and it doesn't work on KDE but it use GNOME.

[Cypher]

Well, must be related to some PulseAudio stuff then... Can't help you, I can't stand PulseAudio nor GNOME...

[House]

I have solved the problem by changing the audio server in TCL

[hugh]

Found this thread while trying to get aMSN to play alarm sounds under Ubuntu 8.04.  I found I had to set Account → Preferences → Others → Sound Server to "Use a different program" 'aplay $sound'".  Now if I could only get a just the pop-up window when certain users log on, and just the sound when anyone sends me a message.  Then I'd be happier than a pig in... whatever!