Bug#551590: metacity: system bell inaudible in X

[Piotr Engelking]

Piotr Engelking <inkerman42 at gmail.com>:

> After a lot of fiddling, I was able to make the bell audible again by
> setting the /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds gconf key to true
> (default is false). It is somewhat different from the standard X bell
> (it is much longer and apparently can only be fired at most once per
> second or so), but it works.

The length of the bell can be changed by editing the
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/bell_duration gconf key (which is
of course undocumented). I set mine to 50 ms, which sounds relatively
nice on my hardware.

The delay between bells is caused by bug #552158.