Switching off gnome-shell alert sounds

Here's something that's been driving me up the wall: Skype respects the setting of "Sound Effects", which in itself is kind of alright.
But the settings only let me choose between off or some sound theme, so I can't set the alert sounds to "none", while still being able to hear an incoming call in skype. How can I switch off these infuriating pops and blubs seperately? Relevant for volume change and typing, tab-complete and so on.
Thanks in advance

Try disable notifications in system-settings in gnome-shell.

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Thanks. Now, I'm calling (p-wm_class "EMMS") from my emms.desktop file now. There's also text under the icon now. Thanks a lot
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(defun p-wm_class (&optional new-class)
"Return the WM_CLASS for the current window name.
If NEW-CLASS is a string or list of strings, set a new WM_CLASS.
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(let ((old-class
(with-temp-buffer
(save-excursion
(call-process-shell-command
(format "xprop -name %s -f WM_CLASS 8s"
x-resource-class)
nil t))
(when (search-forward "WM_CLASS" nil t)
(search-forward "=" (line-end-position))
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(line-end-position))
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(new-class-string (cond ((and (listp new-class)
(cl-every 'stringp new-class))
(mapconcat 'identity
new-class ", "))
((stringp new-class)
new-class))))
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(call-process-shell-command
(format "xprop -name %s -f WM_CLASS 8s -set WM_CLASS \"%s\""
x-resource-class
new-class))
new-class)
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x-resource-class
(car (delete "emacs" (delete "Emacs" old-class)))))
(car (delete "emacs" (delete "Emacs" old-class)))))
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Hello
I found the culprit !
As I had mentioned, the alerts were NO APPLE sounds. They came from my MS Entourage, where I had recently clicked the "sound when no message" box. So every minute or so, when Entourage checked if I had new E-mail messages and there were none, I got this CLONK or PEW sound !
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It works.
What I have done is to remove ~/.config/gnome-sessions/sessions/gnome-fallback.session and replace it with gnome.session
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