Re: Annoying beeps

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Felipe Contreras schrieb:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de> wrote:
>   
> > Felipe Contreras schrieb:
> >     
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I recently installed a new system and got almost deaf by my laptop's
> > > annoying beep of the pc speaker. There are a lot of ways to disable
> > > it, but shouldn't this get fixed in the right way?
> > >
> > > I can't help but image showing a brand new Linux system to a bunch of
> > > people with Compiz, and all these video and audio capabilities,
> > > virtualizing Windows and what not, but hit backspace in the wrong
> > > location and BEEP! Straight to the 80's.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't something in GNOME map XBeep or whatever to something more
> > > appropriate?
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > >
> > >       
> > PulseAudio can replace it with any sound.
> >     
>
> Cool, but what if the system doesn't have PulseAudio?
>
>   
Then you have loud beeps :) Or port that small part from pulseaudio and 
stick it into your gnome-session.

Stefan