Re: Audible bell in Metacity

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:41:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:

> 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 think you are facing this upstream bug/feature?:

***
Metacity should not handle sounds for system bell events
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607906
***

But still has no responses :-/

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón