This morning the beep issued reappeared, and I started researching this bug.
"Enable system beep" is related to gconf key "/apps/metacity/general/audible_bell". Looking for its value in gconf- editor i could see that it was indeed set to false - as expected. Odd. Anyway, I don't use metacity, but compiz. I grabbed compiz source package and looked for the code that "links" metacity settings to the ones in compiz. Audio bell settings are "synced" in bell_settings_changed() (gtk/window- decorator/gtk-window-decorator.c:5374), where the value attributed to META_AUDIBLE_BELL_KEY is copied to COMPIZ_AUDIBLE_BELL_KEY ("/apps/compiz/general/allscreens/options/audible_bell"). So, this explains why the enabling and disabling system bell in gnome sound properties capplet solves the system bell problem. Next time this thing reappears I will check if compiz settings in gconf for audible_bell are as expected or not. -- Gnome forgets system beep settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132804 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs