Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 59298
gnome-terminal ignores gnome bell volume setting
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: For as long as I can remember gnome-terminal has ignored the volume set for the system bell in the gnome control center. Whatsmore, the gnome terminal preferences only allows you to silence the bell, not control the volume. This is really bothersome for people with a loud bell, like me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start nautilus 2.go to preferences:///Peripherals 3.Enter the keyboard preference settings. 4.Lower your keyboard bell setting. 5.Open a gnome-terminal and tab away - bell sound should not have decreased. Actual Results: Bell sound stays loud. Expected Results: Bell should have lowered in volume. Additional info:
Does the bell volume setting work in any other app? (Emacs for example?) Does it work for the Test button in keyboard-properties? If you exit keyboard-properties and start it again, does the second instance have the setting you set in the first instance?
Yes the setting works in other applications (emacs in particular). It works in the test button and appears the same on reopening. I have the same problem with the bell volume on several computers of different types with different install histories.
g-t isn't doing anything strange though; it uses exactly the same function call to beep that those other apps do. Hrm, I guess it's something weird going on. I'm not sure where to start looking. If you notice any other patterns please note them here.
The move to GNOME 2 replaces the bell-volume-setting control panel and also gnome-terminal, so this won't apply to GNOME 2. Only release showstoppers are being fixed for GNOME 1 at this point.