>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael A. Peters >> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 4:52 PM >> >> Secondly - is there a way from a shell script to turn off the >> event noises temporarily? IE the beeps and burps from kdialog? I cannot test this since the only machine I have handy doesn't have sound but this command might do the trick (even in KDE): gnome-volume-control --disable-sound Then again, it might not. -- Henry