Thanks, Alan.  I suppose I'll need to open a CR to see what can be done 
about toning it down, huh?

On 01/25/10 04:49 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 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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