Comment 6 for bug 188617

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Matt Fischer (mfisch) wrote :

I did some extensive research into this bug tonight and I found that at it's heart, the issue is that compiz is not properly handling the system beep. There is nothing wrong with gnome-netool. The root bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/301174

I think that it is unlikely that the system beep, which is quite annoying IMHO will be enabled in compiz by default anytime soon, so, if you really need this feature, you can work around this bug in the following ways:

from your terminal:
1) load the pcspkr kernel module: sudo modprobe pcspkr
2) run "xset b on"
3) launch gnome-nettool
4) enable the beep and ping away

To make the above changes permanent, add the xset line to your bashrc file and then comment out the blacklist entry for pcspkr in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Another option is to build and enable the compiz-bell plugin (untried, but suggested to me):
https://github.com/hypodermia/compiz-bell-plugin