On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> You could (a) opt not to have startup and shutdown noises, (b) pick >>> quieter sound effects for those events. > >Gene Heskett: >> And where is that choice administered? So many menu's have changed >> between 3.5.9 and 4.2, and become so 'simplified' in favor of leaving >> so much as defaults, there is little enough intuition as to where they >> are. And I have explored most of the likely looking items in the >> k-menu. > >Isn't that why it has a search feature? To find the things for you that >you can't find in its chaos. What search feature? You mean find files/folders? One needs a valid name, and I know how to run locate, which seems to be about 3 magnitudes faster. :) > >When all else fails, locate the sound files used when starting and >stopping, and re-record them at quarter volume levels. That was how I >made less important annunciators quieter, while the important ones were >still attention getting. And how to do that when you have no idea of that particular pair of filenames? Chuckle. There is always a smartass in the crowd, usually me, Tim. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Life is the childhood of our immortality. -- Goethe -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines