** Also affects: linux-lts-xenial (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154
Title:
System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it
Status in metacity:
New
Status in libcanberra package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in linux-lts-xenial package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in metacity package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Between Jaunty and Karmic, a number of changes were made to keep the
PC speaker from beeping. As part of this, system bell events are now
captured by metacity, which uses libcanberra to play a sound. For
users without speakers, this fails to be useful. The current setup
makes restoring the old behavior extremely difficult.
The absolute show stopper is that metacity traps audible system bell
events. This behavior is, as best we can tell, not configurable. The
attached patch keeps metacity from capturing system bell events. It
also removes the sound playback capability. As Lucid will be using
pulse audio's module-x11-bell to play sounds for system bell events,
it is not necessary for this capability to be in metacity.
Additionally, this removes the discrepancy between metacity's and
compiz's handling of system bell events.
There are several other difficulties in enabling the system bell:
1) Even if it is taken out of the blacklist, the pcspkr module may not load
properly. Another modprobe may be necessary to get it loaded. See bug #398161.
2) Something in Gnome's startup does the equivalent of `xset b off`, so `xset
b on` must be run on every login. (Note that bug #280767 keeps you from
setting the bell volume with xset.)
3) A number of settings in gnome-terminal and gconf may keep the shell from
sounding system bell events.
Comments #28, #34, and #50 give more detailed summaries of the various
problems.
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