> 5) gnome-volume-control doesn't. > The "Sound Effects" tab of gnome-volume-control > offers to set the volume and sound for system bell > events, but these have no effect. This is because > gnome-volume-control is trying to control system > bells through metacity. Ideally, it should be rewritten > to control module-x11-bell instead, but a temporary > fix could be to simply disable this tab.
In natty, on the Sound Effects tab there is no control for system bell events. So this part of the report seems fixed. FYI, on a fresh natty install, as a workaround, to enable beeps (e.g., terminal bells) permanently I created a ~/.xprofile file with: pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg bell.ogg xset b 100 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-media in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/769314 Title: System bell broken in Natty/Unity (despite heroic...) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/769314/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs