I like the system beep on my laptop. I’m used to hearing it for file completion and in emacs. I seem to be the only person who does like the system beep, though, considering how difficult it was to turn it on on a brand new Fedora 9 installation. Previous Fedora installations have not had a system beep after upgrades, but it was easily fixed by forcing a modprobe of the pcspkr module. Unfortunately, that was not sufficient for Fedora 9. After spending about an hour on the issue, and looking at acceptably obscure places like System > Preferences > Hardware > Sound, I discovered the secret. I had to right click on the volume control in the upper right corner, and select “Open Volume Control” (this does not give the same result as Sounds & Video > PulseAudio Volume Control in the main menu, but I discovered later that it is the same as System > Preferences > Hardware > Volume Control). Then in that window I had to select the menu item Edit > Preferences, which gave me a list of “Select tracks to be visible”. There were already items visible, but it turned out that I had to explicitly select “Beep”. That gave me a volume control for “Beep” alongside the volume controls for “Master”, “PCM”, and “Microphone”. The volume was set to zero, and I set it to the maximum. I also had to explicitly click on the “Mute\/unmute Beep” button. After doing all that, I finally had my system beep.<\/p>\n
I now understand that when people talk about the “Linux desktop” they mean the process of making Linux as baffling as Windows. This may actually be the right thing to do. As a long-time user of computer systems, it is possible that my notion of what is easy to understand and to use is radically different from that of people with a different life experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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