diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 73db4accc..a0aa42264 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ if (WITH_BZIP)
   endif (BZIP2_FOUND)
 endif (WITH_BZIP)
 
+#Check for libcanberra-gtk (sound events on Linux)
+if (UNIX AND (NOT APPLE))
+    pkg_check_modules (CANBERRA-GTK REQUIRED libcanberra-gtk)
+endif (UNIX AND (NOT APPLE))
+
 if (WITH_MYFILE_MMAP)
 	add_definitions (-DMYFILE_MMAP)
 endif (WITH_MYFILE_MMAP)
diff --git a/COMPILE.txt b/COMPILE.txt
index b21695d6e..7deb09069 100644
--- a/COMPILE.txt
+++ b/COMPILE.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   JPEG        libjpeg>=6b        http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/
                                  http://jpegclub.org/
                                  http://www.ijg.org/
+  LIBCANBERRA libcanberra-gtk    http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/ [Only on Linux]
   LCMS2       lcms>=2.0a         http://www.littlecms.com/
   LIBIPTCDATA libiptcdata>=1.0.2 http://libiptcdata.sourceforge.net
   PNG         libpng>=1.2.44     http://www.libpng.org/
@@ -413,34 +414,34 @@ LINUX
     See the list of dependencies at the beginning of this document.
 
     In Ubuntu/Debian the requirements can be installed by running:
-      sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libfftw3-dev libbz2-dev \
-      libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev \
-      libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libiptcdata-dev libjpeg8-dev \
-      liblcms2-dev libpng-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libtiff-dev mercurial \
-      zlib1g-dev
+      sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libcanberra-gtk-dev \
+      libfftw3-dev libbz2-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat1-dev libglib2.0-dev \
+      libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev libiptcdata-dev \
+      libjpeg8-dev liblcms2-dev libpng-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libtiff-dev \
+      mercurial zlib1g-dev
 
     In Fedora, run:
       sudo yum install gcc-c++ cmake bzip2-devel exiv2-devel expat-devel \
       fftw-devel glib2-devel glibmm24-devel gtk+-devel gtkmm24-devel \
-      libjpeg-turbo-devel lcms2-devel libiptcdata-devel libpng-devel \
-      libsigc++20-devel libtiff-devel zlib-devel
+      libcanberra-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel lcms2-devel libiptcdata-devel \
+      libpng-devel libsigc++20-devel libtiff-devel zlib-devel
 
     In Gentoo, run:
       sudo emerge -uva app-arch/bzip2 media-gfx/exiv2 dev-libs/expat \
       dev-libs/glib dev-cpp/glibmm x11-libs/gtk+ dev-cpp/gtkmm \
-      media-libs/libjpeg-turbo media-libs/lcms media-libs/libiptcdata \
-      media-libs/libpng dev-libs/libsigc++ media-libs/tiff sci-libs/fftw \
-      sys-libs/zlib
+      media-libs/libcanberra media-libs/libjpeg-turbo media-libs/lcms \
+      media-libs/libiptcdata media-libs/libpng dev-libs/libsigc++ \
+      media-libs/tiff sci-libs/fftw sys-libs/zlib
 
     In Arch, run:
       sudo pacman -S bzip2 exiv2 expat fftw glib2 glibmm gtk gtkmm lcms2 \
-      libiptcdata libjpeg-turbo libpng libsigc++ libtiff zlib
+      libcanberra libiptcdata libjpeg-turbo libpng libsigc++ libtiff zlib
 
     In openSUSE, run:
       sudo zypper in gcc-c++ cmake fftw3-devel glib2-devel gtk2-devel \
-      glibmm2-devel gtkmm2-devel libbz2-devel libexpat-devel libiptcdata-devel \
-      libjpeg-devel liblcms2-devel libpng-devel libsigc++2-devel libtiff-devel \
-      zlib-devel
+      glibmm2-devel gtkmm2-devel libbz2-devel libcanberra-devel libexpat-devel \
+      libiptcdata-devel libjpeg-devel liblcms2-devel libpng-devel \
+      libsigc++2-devel libtiff-devel zlib-devel
 
   COMPILE:
     The Automatic Way:
diff --git a/rtgui/CMakeLists.txt b/rtgui/CMakeLists.txt
index ba55d7356..62a99bc71 100644
--- a/rtgui/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/rtgui/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ if (WIN32)
     #set_target_properties (rth PROPERTIES LINK_FLAGS "-mwindows")
 else (WIN32)
     include_directories (${EXTRA_INCDIR} ${GLIB2_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GLIBMM_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-        ${GTK_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GTKMM_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GIO_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GIOMM_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${IPTCDATA_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${LCMS_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${EXPAT_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${FFTW3F_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GTHREAD_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GOBJECT_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
+        ${GTK_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GTKMM_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GIO_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GIOMM_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${IPTCDATA_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${LCMS_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${EXPAT_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${FFTW3F_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GTHREAD_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${GOBJECT_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${CANBERRA-GTK_INCLUDE_DIRS})
     link_directories (${EXTRA_LIBDIR} ${GLIB2_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GLIBMM_LIBRARY_DIRS}
-        ${GTK_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GTKMM_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GIO_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GIOMM_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${IPTCDATA_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${LCMS_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${EXPAT_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${FFTW3F_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GTHREAD_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GOBJECT_LIBRARY_DIRS})
+        ${GTK_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GTKMM_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GIO_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GIOMM_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${IPTCDATA_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${LCMS_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${EXPAT_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${FFTW3F_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GTHREAD_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${GOBJECT_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${CANBERRA-GTK_LIBRARY_DIRS})
 endif (WIN32)
 # create config.h which defines where data are stored
 configure_file ("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/config.h.in" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/config.h")
@@ -55,6 +55,6 @@ set_target_properties (rth PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}" OUTPUT_
 #target_link_libraries (rth rtengine ${JPEG_LIBRARIES} ${PNG_LIBRARIES} ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES} ${TIFF_LIBRARIES} ${EXTRA_LIB} ${GOBJECT_LIBRARIES} ${GTHREAD_LIBRARIES}
 #   ${GLIB2_LIBRARIES} ${GLIBMM_LIBRARIES} ${GTK_LIBRARIES} ${GTKMM_LIBRARIES} ${GIO_LIBRARIES} ${GIOMM_LIBRARIES} ${LCMS_LIBRARIES} ${IPTCDATA_LIBRARIES})
 target_link_libraries (rth rtengine ${JPEG_LIBRARIES} ${PNG_LIBRARIES} ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES} ${TIFF_LIBRARIES} ${GOBJECT_LIBRARIES} ${GTHREAD_LIBRARIES}
-   ${GLIB2_LIBRARIES} ${GLIBMM_LIBRARIES} ${GTK_LIBRARIES} ${GTKMM_LIBRARIES} ${GIO_LIBRARIES} ${GIOMM_LIBRARIES} ${LCMS_LIBRARIES} ${EXPAT_LIBRARIES} ${FFTW3F_LIBRARIES} ${IPTCDATA_LIBRARIES} ${EXTRA_LIB_RTGUI})
+   ${GLIB2_LIBRARIES} ${GLIBMM_LIBRARIES} ${GTK_LIBRARIES} ${GTKMM_LIBRARIES} ${GIO_LIBRARIES} ${GIOMM_LIBRARIES} ${LCMS_LIBRARIES} ${EXPAT_LIBRARIES} ${FFTW3F_LIBRARIES} ${IPTCDATA_LIBRARIES} ${CANBERRA-GTK_LIBRARIES} ${EXTRA_LIB_RTGUI})
 install (TARGETS rth DESTINATION ${BINDIR})
 
diff --git a/rtgui/options.cc b/rtgui/options.cc
index 21f63a9ec..9220d1cb0 100644
--- a/rtgui/options.cc
+++ b/rtgui/options.cc
@@ -348,7 +348,11 @@ void Options::setDefaults () {
     cutOverlayBrush = std::vector<double> (4);
     cutOverlayBrush[3] = 0.667;  // :-p
 
+#if defined(__linux__) || defined(WIN32)
     sndEnable=true;
+#else
+    sndEnable=false;
+#endif
     sndLngEditProcDoneSecs=3.0;
 
     // Reminder: 0 = SET mode, 1 = ADD mode
diff --git a/rtgui/preferences.cc b/rtgui/preferences.cc
index 24a12c162..9e6dd6081 100644
--- a/rtgui/preferences.cc
+++ b/rtgui/preferences.cc
@@ -1280,6 +1280,10 @@ void Preferences::fillPreferences () {
     ckbSndEnable->set_active (moptions.sndEnable);
     txtSndBatchQueueDone->set_text (moptions.sndBatchQueueDone);
     txtSndLngEditProcDone->set_text (moptions.sndLngEditProcDone);
+#if defined(__linux__) || defined(__APPLE__)
+    txtSndBatchQueueDone->set_sensitive (false);
+    txtSndLngEditProcDone->set_sensitive (false);
+#endif
     spbSndLngEditProcDoneSecs->set_value (moptions.sndLngEditProcDoneSecs);
 }
 
@@ -1307,9 +1311,12 @@ void Preferences::autocielabToggled () {
 }
 */
 void Preferences::sndEnableToggled () {
+#ifdef WIN32
 	txtSndBatchQueueDone->set_sensitive(ckbSndEnable->get_active());
 	txtSndLngEditProcDone->set_sensitive(ckbSndEnable->get_active());
+#elif defined(__linux__) || defined(WIN32)
 	spbSndLngEditProcDoneSecs->set_sensitive(ckbSndEnable->get_active());
+#endif
 }
 
 void Preferences::langAutoDetectToggled () {
diff --git a/rtgui/soundman.cc b/rtgui/soundman.cc
index 67be7a5e9..847e7fe9b 100644
--- a/rtgui/soundman.cc
+++ b/rtgui/soundman.cc
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
 #include <mmsystem.h>
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __linux__
+#include <canberra-gtk.h>
+#endif
+
 
 void SoundManager::init()
 {
@@ -45,9 +49,10 @@ void SoundManager::init()
 // param is either file name or name of the system event on Windows (e.g. "SystemAsterisk" or "SystemDefault").
 void SoundManager::playSoundAsync(const Glib::ustring &sound)
 {
-     if (sound.empty() || !options.sndEnable) return;
+     if (!options.sndEnable) return;
 
 #ifdef WIN32
+    if (sound.empty()) return;
     DWORD sndParam=SND_ASYNC | SND_NODEFAULT;
 
     if (sound.find('.')!=Glib::ustring::npos) {
@@ -61,8 +66,7 @@ void SoundManager::playSoundAsync(const Glib::ustring &sound)
     wchar_t *wfilename = (wchar_t*)g_utf8_to_utf16 (sound.c_str(), -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
     PlaySoundW(wfilename, NULL, sndParam);
     g_free( wfilename );
-#else
-    // TODO: Add code for other OSes here
-    printf("Sound not supported on your OS (yet)\n");
+#elif defined(__linux__)
+    ca_context_play(ca_gtk_context_get(), 0, CA_PROP_EVENT_ID, "complete", NULL);
 #endif
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}