Public bug reported:
Starting from recently, Nautilus has begun to make a stupid and annoying
"Beep" (or rather "Bipp") sound for some random (but not all) navigating
actions, such as: clicking on an item in the "breadcrumbs" on the top of
the window (but not opening a folder by clicking on it from within a
window), switching tabs, and perhaps some more.
So I looked in Nautilus' Preferences if there was a setting for that and
there isn't.
Then I opened System Settings and went to Sound -> Sound Effects and
there I found an "Alert volume" setting (there is also a "Choose an
Alert sound" option where the only available choice is "Default",
brilliant), so I tried to mute that.
That accomplishes my goal of muting Nautilus' stupid beep sounds.
However, it also removes another completely unrelated and useful sound
feature which I do not want to turn off: when you increase or decrease
the general output volume by using the volume +/- keys in the keyboard,
you hear a sound with a loudness proportional to the volume you are
setting. That's useful. If I mute the "Alert volume", that sound also
disappears.
And God knows which and how many other sounds I may be muting.
It's nonsense that completely unrelated features such as Nautilus' beeps
on (some) navigation actions and the feedback sound for monitoring
changes in general output volume (none of which, by the way, is an
"alert" of any kind) are linked together under a single setting by the
name of "alert volume".
While we wait a few years for this annoying issue to be fixed, does anyone know
of a workaround?
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: systemsettings (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-98.121-generic 4.4.90
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-98-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Nov 13 18:21:07 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (1493 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: systemsettings
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: systemsettings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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