Unable to disable alert sounds

[Saurabh Gupta]

When working on pantheon files or typing in a textbox but I get an alert sound each time I press backspace in file manager to go to previous folder or when I press backspace in empty textbox even after disabling/muting alert sounds from sound settings.

[Zoltan Tamas Vajda (zoltan-tamas-vajda)]

I can confirm this one. This has been present ever since I've used luna daily builds.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Thanks for reporting this. I've marked it as low priority since it's not a deal-breaker, but should definitely still be fixed. I've also assigned it to the beta2 milestone so it should fixed before our second beta release.

[Saurabh Gupta (bhaismachine)]

Temporary work around :

1) Install Ubuntu tweak
2) It won't be available in slingshot for some weird reason so open it from terminal using "ubuntu-tweak"
3) Go to sound settings in Ubuntu tweak app
4) Disable event sounds
5) Profit.

[Brian Bentsen (bimsebasse)]

Was about to file this bug.

Have to force myself to navigate Files with the mouse as keyboard navigation right now is a road paved with BONK!s. Really does your head in.

[RH (rhvz)]

You can work around it by setting org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds property to false via dconf editor.

[Eduard Gotwig (gotwig)]

It does work for me as expected. Is this bug report still valid?

[René Vangsgaard (rene-vangsgaard)]

This bug is still valid for me. When sound is disabled I still get alerts in pantheon files and terminal.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I've marked files and terminal as affected, but I'm marking this bug as fixed for elementary OS itself. If someone is still having a problem with this setting in Switchboard (not with apps respecting this setting) please reconfirm.

[René Vangsgaard (rene-vangsgaard)]

Is this really something every app should deal with? I am asking this out of curiosity: do apps send notification sounds directly to the sound system (Alsa/Pulse), or do they tell the OS to make a notification=