On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 07:41 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:09:49AM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with Xfce, because Xfce doesn't > > have sound effects. Have you enabled "Launch Gnome Services on startup" > > in "Sessions and Startup"? If so, this might come from Gnome and you > > need to configure it with gnome-sound-properties. > > So, yeah, I've tried that, and it gives me an error: > > Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'. > > Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take > effect. This could indicate a problem with Bonobo, or a non-GNOME (e.g. > KDE) settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME > settings manager. > > However, I am able to make changes there, like disabling "system sounds", > and the choices I make persist -- and the sounds don't go away no matter > what I do. > Let me try to clear this up. The thing that is responsible for making the sound is the libcanberra-gtk module that is shipped with libcanberra. It gets loaded by all gtk applications by means of an xinitrc.d file setting the GTK_MODULES envvar. The module respects some XSettings to turn sound events on and off: Net/SoundThemeName, Net/EnableInputFeedbackSounds, Net/EnableEventSounds. In Gnome, these XSettings are handled by the xsettings manager thats part of gnome-settings-daemon. So there are several ways to get rid of event sounds in Xfce (in decreasing order of brutality): - uninstall libcanberra - remove the xinitrc.d file, or unset GTK_MODULES somehow - make the Xfce xsettings manager handle those settings -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
