How do I turn down the volume on a system beep ?

[Eli Wapniarski]

Cool

Eli

On Thursday 25 March 2010 09:17:56 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 07:27 +0200, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 02:18:51 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > F12 fully up to date.  KDE sessions.
> > > 
> > > System beeps, ie Evolution receiving a new email are very loud.  How do
> > > I turn them down or off entirely ?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > 
> > If you are unable to see the beep in kmix
> 
> When did the beep show up in kmix ?   I'm sure I checked for it when
> this all started, but now its there in mine.  I muted it and now all is
> well !  No more beeps.
> 
> The beep volume was set to zero before I muted it.  Apparently that
> didn't make it quiet.
> 
> > you will need to configure channels
> > and select it. If you do not see the option, it means that the kde
> > multimedia system is configured to work with phonon and not alsa.
> > 
> > I do not remember where to configure this in the kde settings. Kevin
> > Koffler pointed this one out to me and is documented at
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KDE_PulseAudio_Integration
> > 
> > At the bottom there is the section called "Release Notes" and there you
> > will find the following information. Of course, you will have to logoff
> > and back on to your KDE session to be able to see the change.
> > 
> > Users of KMix will notice that most of their hardware sound controls are
> > no longer shown in the default (PulseAudio-based) interface. To get
> > access to these controls, close KMix (use right-click / quit) and
> > restart it by running KMIX_PULSEAUDIO_DISABLE=1 kmix in a Konsole
> > terminal. To make this change permanent, add export
> > KMIX_PULSEAUDIO_DISABLE=1 to your ~/.bashrc file.
> 
> Great post !  Thanks for taking the time to do this.   Much appreciated.
> 
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