[sylpheed:33547] Re: Sylpheed beeps when chang folder

richard lucassen mailinglists at lucassen.org
Sat Jan 16 01:58:14 JST 2010


On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:48:12 -0700
Bob White <bob at bob-white.com> wrote:

> > > I just upgraded to 3.0.0beta4 (Debian testing) and when I change
> > > to another IMAP folder, the computer beeps. E.g.: changing to
> > > Inbox: no beep, changing to Sent: beep
> > > 
> > > Can anyone tell me why Sylpheed beeps?
> > 
> > additioo: apararently this only occurs on non-empty folders that
> > have the number of unread messages set to zero (IOW: every message
> > set to "read")
> 
> There was a fairly long discussion about a similar problem in March,
> 2008.  Here is a short quote from one of the messages posted by Enrico
> Tröger:
> 
> <quote>
> > I have been using Sylpheed for several years but I'm getting trouble
> > with a newly installed 2.4.8 version: Sylpheed makes GTK beep when I
> > open folders containing *sorted* messages. This happens with any
> > number of messages being in the folder (except when the folder is
> > empty). 
> > 
> > GTK stops beeping when the messages aren't sorted anymore, i.e.
> > using the menu "View -> Sort -> Don't sort".
> 
> You can make GTK generally stop beeping by adding the following line
> into your ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
> gtk-error-bell = 0
> 
> Then GTK won't beep anymore(needs a restart of running applications).
> But maybe you will miss then some *wanted* beeps, your decision ;-).
> 
> Regards,
> Enrico
> </quote>
> 
> I had the problem back then, and I think I used the gtk-error-bell = 0
> solution, although after upgrading the OS several times (currently
> Ubuntu 9.10), I now don't get the beep nor I have the mod in the gtkrc
> file.  For 9.10, the command would go in the ~/.gtkrc.mine file.

Strange, this is a fairly up2date Debian Testing version. But anyway,
thnx for your suggestion, I have put the bell line in
~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine :-)

Strange GTK2 behaviour though!

R.

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