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No sound with Thunderbird 12.0.1

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 8016 / 3 Years ago, thu, july 1, 2021, 1:16:12

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 and Thunderbird 12.0.1 from scratch but I hear no sound when new mail arrives.

I have installed pulseaudio-esound-compat and esound-common but the problem persist.

How can I fix this, and get new mail notification sounds in Thunderbird?

Bug reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1009108

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answered 3 Years ago luringdge · Accepted Answer

From Thunderbird v12, it uses libcanberra. And the canberra system only plays the sounds if sound effects are enabled: For default sound and for a custom sound.

IMHO this behavior is incorrect but this is what Mozilla have decided.

You can install libcanberra from the Software Center Install libcanberra-gstreamer , or by opening a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and running these commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gstreamer