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Hello, Alan. |
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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 07:22:12PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 20/10/2015 18:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hello, Gentoo. |
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> > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps |
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> > at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by. |
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> > Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ I'm shutting |
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> > the machine down. |
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> > Can anybody here tell me how to disable this <beep>ing annoyance? |
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> > Many thanks in advance! |
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> Where is the beep coming from? |
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The beep speaker in my PC case. |
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> Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts & |
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> Notifications or similar in your DE. |
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I use XFCE. I get a similar beep on exiting XFCE, and I've sent a |
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similar request to an XFCE list asking how I can disable that beep. |
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> That silly monotone speaker that can only make bing noises and has been |
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> in pc's since the first one? |
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Yes, that one! After spending all the time I did trying to get my |
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kernel to drive it, I now want to suppress it (sometimes). |
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> Is this happening inside a DE session, or from a virtual console? |
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From a virtual console. Matthias has tracked it down for me, and it is |
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hard coded in one of the C files building shutdown itself. I think I'm |
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going to edit the source and rebuild it without the bleep. |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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