Bug 471582

I think it's just exposed in a different way now.

If I run gnome-sound-properties and then click on the "Sounds" tab I see

"Visual alert" in the list of choices.   Does playing with it, give you what you're looking for?

I can only get to that visual alert by turning on 'play alerts and sound effects.' So I have to turn on all the other sound effects to turn on visual alert (originally included to help the deaf)? That's... non-intuitive. 

(And also I have to toggle 'play alert sound' from off to on back to off again; but I assume that is just an artifact of the upgrade.)

As a work around i guess you could manually disable them.

Bastien, was this new dialog your baby?

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Changing version to '10'.

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I have a different problem that appears to be related to this one.
No matter what you select in the Control Center. In F10 the "system alert sound" is always a BEEP through the internal PC speaker.
Moreover it seems there is no "pc speaker" option anymore.

Note that this seems to spontaneously revert at times; as in, I had previously turned it off but now it is back again. 

Retitling. (And yes, I know this bug now should be broken out into a number of smaller bugs, but I'm busy and I'm frankly irritated that I'm hearing this fucking noise all the time so I'm a little cranky. Sorry... I'll try to fix it when I have time in January.)

(In reply to comment #6)
> Note that this seems to spontaneously revert at times; as in, I had previously
> turned it off but now it is back again. 
> 
> Retitling. (And yes, I know this bug now should be broken out into a number of
> smaller bugs, but I'm busy and I'm frankly irritated that I'm hearing this
> fucking noise all the time so I'm a little cranky. Sorry... I'll try to fix it
> when I have time in January.)

# rmmod pcspkr
# echo "blacklist pcspkr" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

We also need to add some code to completely disable the audio alert (in /apps/metacity/general/audible_bell) when sound events are disabled. Or make it possible to change it independently of that setting (whichever might make more sense).

Maybe offtopic (because it is not really Gnome-related)

edit /etc/inputrc to read
set bell-style none (or "set bell-style visible" for visible alerts)
for system-wide configuration

~/.inputrc for single user configuration

This solution works for ssh sessions as well (.inputrc on the target machine)

For the record, I notice that in the control center GUI:

1. Even though "play alert sound" is visually grouped below the "play alerts and sound effects" checkbox it is always is enabled and works just fine (for me).

2. "Visual alert" always applies (for me), but can only be edited when "play alerts and sound effects" is checked.

So I think the functionality is fine and the GUI is nice ... but the GUI unfortunately is too nice and doesn't match the functionality.

(((And I had to adjust this because "flash screen" comes too much in the way and is too slow.)))

The /etc/inputrc solution doesn't work for me in text mode and for ssh sessions.
The shell still beeps in text mode and in ssh sessions even if I set bell-style none.

Thanks,
Vax.

Not able to silence the internal speaker of my Lenovo T500 except for rmmod pcspkr but that's not a real solution.

Going to System -> Preferences -> Sound selecting Sound Theme "no sounds" didn't help. Neither does changing Alert Volume slider or enabling the "Mute checkbox" next to it.

Inserting "set bell-style visual" or "set bell-style none" into /etc/inputrc didn't show any effect either.

This is on F11!

Still happens (In reply to comment #5)
> I have a different problem that appears to be related to this one.
> No matter what you select in the Control Center. In F10 the "system alert
> sound" is always a BEEP through the internal PC speaker.
> Moreover it seems there is no "pc speaker" option anymore.  
I'm having same behaviour except that the system is doing it on sound card instead, probably because I've physically detached pc speaker... Means that every single error that causes a beep causes audio playback to halt until the beeping stops. *Really* annoying.
This is on Rawhide that's going to become Fedora 12.

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