Using Sound Themes

On UNIX Systems

We use the Freedesktop Sound Schemes specification to do this.

Basically we put the named sound packs in /usr/share/sounds, with a sound folder and with an index.theme file.

The theme is then set using the dconf-editor by going to org.gnome.desktop.sound and setting the sound theme name appropriately.

As for how they are invoked, /usr/bin/libcanberra-gtk can be used with the --id flag to select an individual sound manually.

Desktop environments may also have sound theme support libraries built in.

Canberra is the Freedesktop sound theme reference library.