Bug#551590: metacity: system bell inaudible in X

[Samuel Thibault]

intrigeri, le Tue 18 Nov 2014 10:29:42 +0100, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote (06 Nov 2010 22:46:20 GMT) :
> > This is a "me too".  While trying to make gdm beep somehow, I stumbled
> > across metacity disabling XkbAudibleBellMask, which thus makes the core
> > bell rerouted via some gnome daemon. Setting
> > /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds to true does work for me in my current
> > setup:
> 
> > ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.5+7                   the X.Org X server
> > ii  xserver-xorg-core         2:1.7.7-8                 Xorg X server - core server
> 
> Is it still the case on current testing/sid?

Well, yes: metacity still unconditionally calls meta_bell_init(), which
still uses XkbChangeEnabledControls to disable XkbAudibleBellMask.

Samuel