Karmic GNOME plays an alert sound file

[Markus Schönhaber]

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.)

What details are you looking for?
The terminal bell is active (and working!) on Karmic by default
(provided compiz is off). One can change the settings through System /
Settings / Sound.

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Regards
  mks