[plug] Intercepting Default Beep

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Tue Apr 6 17:15:11 WST 1999


Mike Holland wrote:
> 
> That isnt deep. ^G becomes a beep in the earlier mentioned places -
> the console and *xterm.
>    Gui apps use the bell in X    (see XDeviceBell(3X11)),
>  but X doesnt support any other sound, despite being horridly bloated.

And KDE has some control, as the KDE control allows you to change the
pitch and duration of the beep, which affects all beeps. So, yes, it's
somewhere in KDE/X!

-- 
. Trevor Phillips             -           http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . 
: CWIS Technical Officer         -           T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au : 
| IT Services                       -               Murdoch University | 
 >------------------- Member of the #SAS# & #CFC# --------------------<
| On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of     /
| course. But mostly evil, on the whole.                             /
 \      -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters)                          /


More information about the plug mailing list