On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Is there a system-wide way to get rid of the system beep? Perhaps I can > > > compile it out of the kernel? > > > > I realize you're probably looking for a software solution, but have > > you considered just disconnecting the leads on the system speaker? > > Or are the beeps coming through your soundcard? > > I will probably do that next time the machine goes down. But, I'm more > interested in a software solution. Beeping the PC Speaker shouldn't be > the default on any OS. I don't know ANYONE who like to here that thing > beep. I have solved the problem. The problem was related to sawfish's tooltips. I had them configured to appear, but they were not appearing. Instead, they were beeping whenever I hovered the mouse over a window frame. I turned this impossibly obnoxious behavior off, but the question remains: why are sawfish's tooltips not available? I installed sawfish-gnome. -jwb
