Beep on X11 login screen
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Sun Oct 26 20:50:10 UTC 2003
Alan Cox (alan at redhat.com) said:
> > It is quite intentional - it is there so blind users can know when they
> > have a prompt awaiting login.
>
> That strikes me as fundamentally useless since the volume setting for the
> sound card is 'however the last user left it' and we don't have enough
> information to know the difference between 'owwww my ears' and 'pin drop'
> or even which channel its mixed through if any.
Well, I'm pretty sure it's a PC speaker beep anyway. Not that that
changes how you can tell how loud it will be.
Bill
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