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How do I disable the irritating drum sound with each mouse click?

Asked by Danny Howard

Hello,

Fresh install of an Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit desktop.

Every time I launch an application I hear a single drum beat. It is irritating as all heck. I have tried the following to no avail:

System > Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects > Sound theme = No sounds

Per http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-disable-login-sound-and-other.html :

gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds false
gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/sound/active false
gconftool-2 --type=bool --set \
  /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/sound/active false
false

The default system theme with the dark menu bars only applies sometimes at boot. If I try to select "Ambiance" in Appearance Preferences is switches immediately over to "Custom" . . . but that doesn't seem to effect this irritating sound effect either.

Thank you in advance for any guidance here.

Sincerely,
-daniel

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Best Emre AYTAÇ (eaytac) said : 		#1

Hi;

May be it's not good choice but you can rename the system-ready.ogg sound file;
sudo mv -v /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg{,.disabled}

Also you may check this page;
http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9990682&postcount=5

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Emre AYTAÇ (eaytac) said : 		#2

I want to add this, system-ready.ogg file is a link for dialog-question.ogg file. If the problem continues, you may try to rename dialog-question.ogg file.

Hope this helps...

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Danny Howard (dannyman) said : 		#3

Emre,

Thanks. My workaround was just to do this:

sudo chmod 0 /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/*

Thanks!

Sincerely,
-daniel

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Danny Howard (dannyman) said : 		#4

Thanks Emre AYTAÇ, that solved my question.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#5

actually, if you turn the volumn up, it's not just a drum beat. there's sounds around that beat and it's rather nice.

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Danny Howard (dannyman) said : 		#6

Marcus,

I actually like the login screen sound, but what I am talking about here is every time I click on the Gnome interface it would make a single drum beat. Click-click-click became boom-boom-boom. REALLY OBNOXIOUS and no way to turn it off, but disabling the sound files did the trick.

-danny