'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 30/10/09 11:54 did gyre and gimble: > On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 21:13 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> 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. > > Nope. It's done through alsa. When it shows up ever so briefly in > pavucontrol it says: > > ALSA plug-in [metacity] > > Unfortunately it doesn't hang around long enough to get a handle on the > slider. Then the code in metacity should probably be updated to either: a) Use libcanberra and trigger either "bell-terminal" or "bell-window-system" sound events (recommended) b) Export an env var to set media.role=event prior to calling doing it's ASLA stuff. (although the generic problem of short sound events still remains as noted elsewhere in this thread - although as stated short sounds are 99.999% of the time "events" anyway. 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/]
