Jim Nissen wrote:
> I've been aware of the "loud system beep" issue since the early 120
> builds of OpenSolaris, and have had a gnome startup process created to
> run the xset workaround. However, it seems each time I upgrade
> OpenSolaris, I have to recreate the gnome startup process, and I've
> noticed with b130 that the system is excessively loud, EVEN when I turn
> the gnome volume down.
>
> It leads me to ask, at what point did all this system beep stuff change,
> at why do we even have to deal with it? It never seemed to be a problem
> with Solaris < OpenSolaris. It's nice that we have a workaround, but
> seems silly that it's loud to begin with.
At some point (probably when GNOME 2.28 integrated into nv_124), GNOME
took over control of the X bell and started playing it through GNOME
sound themes instead.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
