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vkumar

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 166

gnome 3 system sounds bug

I just upgraded to gnome3 [extra]. I'd like to turn off system sound notifications. There's an option for this, but it doesn't seem to work.

I went to System Settings -> Sound -> Sound Effects and clicked "Mute". But when I accidentally backspace at an empty terminal prompt, or change my volume, I get an annoying little "beeump" sound.

Is anyone else having this issue? How would I fix this (or should I just file a report)?

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: gnome 3 system sounds bug

i think that is a bug somewhere in the conversion. i remember i had that problem and works fine in a clean user and because of that i deleted my local configs.

try adding a new user and see if muting alert works

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vkumar

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 166

Re: gnome 3 system sounds bug

Oof, I don't want to get rid of my configs..

Here's a quick and dirty fix;
pacman -Rdd sound-theme-freedesktop

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SliMM

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 1

Re: gnome 3 system sounds bug

There's a settings key for that:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds false

Or just use dconf-editor if you prefer clicking. :-)

JaVaEs

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Registered: 2011-04-27

Posts: 4

Re: gnome 3 system sounds bug

There's a settings key for that:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds false

Or just use dconf-editor if you prefer clicking. :-)

Worked perfectly, thanks!