[plug] Intercepting Default Beep

[Trevor Phillips]

Mike Holland wrote:
> 
>    Are you willing to go into the source code? Xterm cant do it, but it
> does have 'visual bell' wich replaces the beep with a flash. So if you
> look at the source for that, it might be very easy to adapt.

I was thinking something more generic, so all apps that beep are
affected.

>    Doing the same for a text console is probably kernel territory.

Yeah. It would have to be fairly deep in the system. Maybe to do with
Device behaviour (eg; if stdout gets a ^G, do something different).

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