Karmic GNOME plays an alert sound file

[Detlef Lechner]

Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> instead of making noise with the PC squeaker, the Gnome release coming
> with Karmic is, at last, able to play a sound file as alert sound /
> terminal bell (KDE can do this since 1754 IIRC).

Can you provide more details? I am having a related problem since Ubuntu
  6.06 on one machine which has not been solved ever since. (I reported
it to Launchpad too.)

> But on my machine the terminal bell is audible only when compiz is
> turned off.

I myself am not interested in Compiz and turn it off.

Regards,

Detlef