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Bug 668994 - "No sounds" theme missing in sound preferences
"No sounds" theme missing in sound preferences
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Sound
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control center sound maintainer(s)
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-30 07:31 UTC by Vadim Rutkovsky
Modified: 2013-01-09 13:34 UTC
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Description Vadim Rutkovsky 2012-01-30 07:31:18 UTC 
Original Report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/914057

There isn't a "No sounds" theme to choose as alert sound in the sound preferences. There used to be one, and it is necessary to get rid of system sounds.

A workaround would be to set the "Alert volume" to zero, but that causes all application sounds (e.g. Skype incoming calls) to be muted, which is not what I want.

Another workaround would be to set event-sounds setting with dconf-editor (org->gnome->desktop->sound->event-sounds). When I do this, the theme selection dialog is grayed out, but sounds keep playing. I was think about filing this as a separate bug, but I am not sure which package to file it to.

gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-0ubuntu1
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2012-08-24 17:20:43 UTC 
Mass reassign, sorry for the noise.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2012-08-28 08:25:11 UTC 
You can lower the sound theme volume to 0, which would mute it. It should have the same effect as setting a "no sounds" theme.
Comment 3 Jan Larres 2013-01-09 13:34:55 UTC 
Lowering the sound theme volume does not have the same effect, as it also mutes alarms from other applications like Skype incoming call ringing. So that is not really a feasible solution. I only want to get rid of normal system sounds, not *all* alarms.