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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:22:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56267844.8050506@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151020161029.GC1781@acm.fritz.box>

On 20/10/2015 18:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
> 
> Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it beeps
> at me.  This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months go by.
> Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me?  I _know_ I'm shutting
> the machine down.
> 
> Can anybody here tell me how to disable this <beep>ing annoyance?
> 
> Many thanks in advance!
> 


Where is the beep coming from?

Real speakers (like where music comes out) - check Alerts &
Notifications or similar in your DE.

That silly monotone speaker that can only make bing noises and has been
in pc's since the first one?

Is this happening inside a DE session, or from a virtual console?

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-20 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-20 16:10 [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down? Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 16:20 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-10-20 16:27 ` wabenbau
2015-10-20 16:44   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 17:22     ` Matthias Gerstner
2015-10-20 17:57       ` Marc Joliet
2015-10-20 18:48         ` Alan McKinnon
2015-10-20 20:24           ` Marc Joliet
2015-10-20 18:01       ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-10-20 18:20       ` [gentoo-user] " Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 17:22 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2015-10-20 18:27   ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-20 19:03     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-10-21 11:58       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-21  9:03   ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2015-10-21  9:55     ` Mick
2015-10-21 10:23       ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-10-21 13:29         ` Neil Bothwick
2015-10-21 13:41           ` Mick
2015-10-21 13:46         ` Mick
2015-10-21 17:10 ` Lee
2015-10-22 14:51   ` João Miguel

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