Audible bell in Metacity
Hello List,
I like my audible bell very much. I really really like it –
unfortunately, Metacity (from current Testing) blocks it in the
following way:
* "beep" works fine
* "xkbbell -force" works, but it doesn't w/o the "-force"
* Gnome-Terminal and all the other applications can only bell
"visible", i. e. I get a flash when enabling the visible bell in
Metacity's gconf-preferences but no audible bell if I disable it
(and leave "audible bell" enabled).
* The module pcspkr is compiled into the kernel and works fine, as
proven above.
* The volume of the "Bell"-output is at 50% in Alsamixer, and as
proven above, ok this way.
I assume this is the same bug as described in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/486154/
and comment 50 seems to provide a solution I didn't test yet – my
question is, wether or not there is a Debian-way to enable the bell
in Metacity or if I have to switch window managers as Piotr Engelking
did here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551590
The hints he gave in this bug report unfortunately don't work for me
– I enabled the corresponding keys, but still can't hear a bell,
probably because I don't use ESD (is there any reason why I should
install this? ALSA works just fine for me…)
Best regards,
Claudius
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