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Asked: 2019-04-20 13:29:32 +0800 CST

How to disable system sounds in Ubuntu 19.04?

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I am wondering how to disable system sounds in Ubuntu 19.04. Although I have them muted in system settings, as you can clearly see in the screenshot below, they still keep on making sound and annoying me:

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Whenever a system sound disturbs my calm a new entry under system sounds appears briefly with full volume and before I can change the volume to mute it, it's gone:

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Can somebody enlighten me, please, how to mute all system sounds in Ubuntu 19.04 or Gnome 3.32 respectively.

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2 Answers

  1. This question has been answered here

    To disable alert sounds on Ubuntu 19.04 you could install dconf editor, either from terminal or from activities/software center. From terminal

    sudo apt install dconf-editor

    Next, launch dconf editor and navigate to org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds and flip the switch to off
    alternatively, click on event-sounds and set custom value to False

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  2. If sound files for system events are stored in org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds, you could mv those files to a different location. for example: .../event-sounds-backup. Allowing you to easily put them back where the system expects them to be.

    Or just delete the event-sounds directory if you're positive you will NEVER want to hear them, without having to re-install them.

    Not an elegant solution, but no sound files means no sound can be played.

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