Re: Calendar reminder sound in Icedove

[Steve George]

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/