This is a "me too". While trying to make gdm beep somehow, I stumbled across metacity disabling XkbAudibleBellMask, which thus makes the core bell rerouted via some gnome daemon. Setting /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds to true does work for me in my current setup:
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+7 the X.Org X server ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.7-8 Xorg X server - core server Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org