Beep on X11 login screen

[Lauri Jutila]

> > 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.

That's a PC speaker beep (and it's painful). There really should be an
option to change it on/off. Back in the days GNOME had a entire Control
Center section devoted to configuring the speaker. You could set nice
low Hz and short beep which was much more user-friendly. That was a
sawfish feature, though. I'd love to see it in metacity, too.

Another great window management feature that's missing from metacity
(AFAIK) is the ability to set window sticky or set it on top of the all
other windows. That's another feature I have on my wish list for
metacity. Please tell me how to enable it if it's already there.

Regards,

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Lauri Jutila
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