Mysterious, unstoppable alert sounds

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I’m getting alert sounds in urxvt that I can’t seem to turn off.

here’s what I’ve tried:

  • xset -b
  • xset b off
  • having set bell-style none in /etc/inputrc
  • turning on visual bell in urxvt (this actually works, but hurts my eyes)

what are my options here?

The wild thing is… I believe I turned off the pc speaker bell at some point… now the bell is an audio file! I never set that up (intentionally)! it’s a drip sound. I can’t find anything about alert sounds or bells in the nixos settings, and I have no idea what piece of software is enabling it.

Any ideas? <3 <3 <3

ps. another option would be to tone down the visual bell. can I choose the color of it?!

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Has anyone resolved this issue? I’ve tried adding gtk-error-bell=0 to all my gtk configs like this stack exchange post suggests here, but nevertheless it persists. I am going insane please help me my family is dying.

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If you use Pipewire, perhaps try pipewire: 0.3.63 -> 0.3.63 by r-ryantm · Pull Request #207895 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub

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Have you been able to resolve this? I’m having the same issue and now it has spread to firefox ‘find in page’ tool

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Did you try the config linked in the previous comment?

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No because i had a moment and realized it happened only after i open vim, so i set vim_configurable.costumize { vimrcConfig.customRC = "set belloff=all ..." ...} and it stopped happening

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setting

/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/99-custom.conf
# the quotes are not required
{
   "context.properties": {
       "module.x11.bell": false 
   }
}

and restarting pipewire (systemctl --user restart pipewire.service) to test works
as suggested in the GitHub comment but is there I way I can get this into my pipewire block in my configuration.nix?

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In unstable there is services.pipewire.extraConfig.pipewire

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ah, of course! Thanks

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Awesome. Until then:

{ pkgs, ... }:
let json = pkgs.formats.json { };
in
{
  environment.etc = {
    "pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/99-silent-bell.conf".source =
      json.generate "99-silent-bell.conf" {
        "context.properties" = {
          "module.x11.bell" = false;
        };
      };
  };
}