Yes, I agree re part 3---safer to leave it in as long as metacity claims responsibility. (But it has no business claiming responsibility---leave that to PulseAudio.)
We haven't heard yet about getting this bug punted to the metacity folks, so it may be time take more direct action in letting them know about it... -- System beep broken in Karmic despite heroic efforts to fix it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486154 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs