[SDL] Beeps and bells.

[David Olofson]

On Monday 12 March 2001 18:05, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> >Yes, it has. See "man XBell" and "man XChangeKeyboardControl" (same page
> >actually) for more info.
>
> note that X11 server support for XBell() has traditionally been very poor.
> for example this XSun uses the keyboard beeper, which can emit beeps of
> varying duration at a fixed frequency carefully adjusted to be as
> annoying to the human ear as possible

How nice! ;-)


> in other words, don't trust XBell and the less it is used the better

Well, that's kind of what I suspected...

Minimalistic speaker daemon with root privileges, or other means of getting 
access to the relevant console ioctls? (It's supposed to work for any local 
user on a "real" console, but that doesn't seem to be the case here... 
Strange.)


//David

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