'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 29/10/09 19:55 did gyre and gimble: > How could I set the volume (i.e. with pavucontrol) for a short lived > audio stream such as the beep that metacity now delivers, for example > when you echo ^G? > > Using PA 0.9.19 now. This beeb should be marked with media.role=event and thus should be adjustable via the "Sound Events" slider in pavucontrol should control your volume. That said, I'm not 100% certain how metacity produces this sound, but I suspect it's via libcanberra in which case it's definitely setup like that. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]