Christian Thalinger wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:10 +0100, Free wrote: >> hello all, >> some laptops made a very loud beep, in the terminal with autocolpetion, >> or when thunderbird receives a new mail. Unfortunately, it seems that >> this problem is related to something that os2008 (snv 101a) doesn't >> manage, you can turned the volume down to nothing, this beep is always >> here, and doesn't exist in Windows. >> There were differents solutions to manage it, so far: >> 1 - "xset b off" in the terminal, but you have to type it every time you >> login >> 2 - modify KBD_BEEPER_FREQ, CONSOLE_BEEPER_FREQ in /etc/default/kbd to 0 >> 3 - add a startup program in System->Preferences->Sessions that does: >> "xset b off" >> 4 - create a /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf from /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf >> to disable sound >> 5 - hack /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default to add "xset b off" >> >> before b101a, every solutions worked, but with b101a, the beep is coming >> back, and i have to use solution 1, others solutions seems insufficient. >> >> Is it possible to address this problem definitively when we are on a >> laptop? > > Isn't this beep the "Terminal Bell" in gnome-terminal's "Profile > Preferences"? Assuming you're using gnome-terminal... >
no, in this case, it was sound system from thunderbird, when new mail arrives (mail.biff.play_sound).
