I cannot hear the audible alert on Google Chat even though I have enabled sound in the options. This is so with both Google Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu Natty. It would be nice to hear a beep of some sort when a typed reply arrives.
Any hints on what further needs to be done is most appreciated.
Thanks.
Did you try out with Google Chat setting?![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wosYE.png)
This might help you. If it's not working then your Flash player might be having problems... Try to do a reinstall and it will most probably help you...
I personally use Pidgin which I think is better than using the Google Chat that's inbuilt to Gmail. So if nothing else seem to work better try out an IRC alternative...
Hope this helps ^^
Do you have flash installed? (try to watch a video on youtube if you don't know, if you can see the videos you have flash installed)
Gmail chat uses flash just to play sounds.
I had the same issue for a long time and it was due to an add-on configuration. I use Flashblock and Gmail uses Flash to play sounds, so sound playing was getting blocked. It was not an Ubuntu specific problem, all I had to do was white list the right URLs:
mail.google.com
, for Gmail;www.google.com
, for iGoogle;www.orkut.com
, for Orkut.I tested this in Ubuntu 12.04 & Firefox 12 (reference link).