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Documentation / Contents - System and Desktop Sounds

• Overview of System and Desktop Sounds
  • What It Is Not
  • The Window
  • The Help Button
  • Two Faces
• The Controls
  • Master Volume Control
  • Mute System
  • Enable Selected Sounds
  • Play Desktop Sounds Through
  • What Is Not Here
• Sound Schemes
  • Where Schemes Live
  • The Description File
  • Audio Formats
  • Writing Your Own
• What Makes a Sound
  • The Six Categories
  • Alerts and Status
  • Desktop Actions
  • Bell
  • Tunes
  • Accessibility
• Applying, Resetting, and Closing
  • Apply
  • Close
  • Reset ...
  • Help
  • Keyboard
  • Command Line
• Settings and Files
  • The Configuration File
  • The Accessibility Category
  • Environment Variables
  • How the Panel Reaches the Daemon
• Desktop Sounds and the Audio Panel
  • Which One Do I Want

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• Copyright Information

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The System & Desktop Sounds help book is part of Blueprint, a clean-room revival of the SGI IRIX Interactive Desktop.

Copyright (c) 2026, Swift Griggs and The Cyanotype Project contributors. All rights reserved. Distributed under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Blueprint is not a product of, nor endorsed by, Silicon Graphics. "IRIX" and "Silicon Graphics" are used only to describe what Blueprint revives. The sound event names follow SGI's own vocabulary so that an IRIX hand recognizes them; the sounds themselves are ours.