diff --git a/src/fe-gtk/setup.c b/src/fe-gtk/setup.c
index 4abc584f..8b3a43e5 100644
--- a/src/fe-gtk/setup.c
+++ b/src/fe-gtk/setup.c
@@ -426,7 +426,11 @@ static const setting alert_settings[] =
 #ifdef WIN32
 	{ST_3OGGLE, N_("Make a beep sound on:"), 0, N_("Play the \"Instant Message Notification\" system sound upon the selected events"), (void *)beeplist, 0},
 #else
+#ifdef USE_LIBCANBERRA
 	{ST_3OGGLE, N_("Make a beep sound on:"), 0, N_("Play \"message-new-instant\" from the freedesktop.org sound theme upon the selected events"), (void *)beeplist, 0},
+#else
+	{ST_3OGGLE, N_("Make a beep sound on:"), 0, N_("Play a GTK beep upon the selected events"), (void *)beeplist, 0},
+#endif
 #endif
 
 	{ST_TOGGLE,	N_("Omit alerts when marked as being away"), P_OFFINTNL(hex_away_omit_alerts), 0, 0, 0},