On 06/11/18 00:11, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > Both Gnome and KDE give me a loud squishy > bell at the thought of the drop of a hat. > I did not get that in C6. > I infer it is a C7-specific thing. > Short of disabling my audio altogether, > how do I make it go away? Mine is definitely not and answer to your question, nut you may also try Mate (which is fork of GNOME): I for one is happy with mate both on my Linux laptop and FreeBSD workstation. Valeri > > Not one of C7's better features. > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++