[xubuntu-users] Thunderbird New Mail Sound

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 30/04/12 16:09, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> On 2012-04-30 15:03, Jack Fromm wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to get the Thunderbird new mail notification sound
>> working in 12.04?  Neither the default system sound nor a specific .wav
>> file works for me.  I've tried a couple of add-ons and I've tried
>> installing esound.  Nothing seems to help.
>>
>> Anyone have any better ideas?
>>
> same problem here, although the file /is/ played, but only for a few
> milliseconds. Just hear a faint tick.
> The same file e-mailed as an attachment can be played correctly though.
>
If you install  libaudiofile1, libesd0, and esound-common, .wav files 
seem to play fine. Can't figure out how to get the default sound though.