Bug 291518 – System bell cannot be disabled in www-client/icecat-3.5.4

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description William Throwe 2009-11-02 02:39:19 UTC]

The system bell rings on a failed search using the page text searcher.  It does not seem to be possible to disable this, even by toggling the accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound preference.  This was off by default in 3.5.3.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge icecat 3.5.4
2. search for a string that does not occur
3. note annoying beeping

Actual Results:  
It beeps, and I can't stop it.

Expected Results:  
It shouldn't beep, or the beep should at least be configurable.

$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc48 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T5500_@_1.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:25:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.5.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/njw /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi afs alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dri dvd dvdr emacs fortran gd gdbm gpm gtk hal iconv jpeg kerberos latex mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session smp spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 sysfs tcpd truetype unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2009-11-10 07:44:42 UTC]

in about:config simply change accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound;true to false and restart browser.

[Comment 2 William Throwe 2010-02-13 04:43:34 UTC]

(Didn't realize this was still open.)  Thanks, that fixed it.  The instructions I'd followed online implied a restart was unnecessary, and I didn't think to try one.  Marking INVALID.