Switching off all sound notifications (gnome apps in kde)

[marc]

marc said:

> Hi,
> 
> I have both Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed on the same machine.
> 
> For the same user, I have switched of sound notifications in Ubuntu
> (System/Preferences/Sound/Sound Preferences/Sounds/<uncheck all>) and
> Kubuntu (System Settings/Notifications/System Notifications/Player
> Settings/<No audio output>).
> 
> However, when running gnome apps in Kubuntu sounds still play for
> notifications and button pushes.
> 
> It seems odd that the gnome apps aren't honouring the user's settings.
> 
> How do you stop this from happening?

See:

  [Jaunty] Sound in GTK apps can't be disabled under KDE
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/343677

Temp fix is to remove ubuntu-sounds. Not much use on a multi user 
systems, though.

-- 
Best,
Marc