Beep on X11 login screen

[Bryan W. Headley]

Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 01:11, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>>>>Can it be turned off ?
>>>>I guess it can, but I am not at my fedora system right now, so I can't check...
>>>
>>>to my knowledge, no, it cannot be disabled. And why does it matter? It's
>>>a single beep.
>>
>>Its annoying. A beep should be an alert for something important. Its just
>>horrible UI work, fortunately its easy to hack out of the sources
> 
> 
> Can we please just agree that it's important for some people while at
> the same time annoying to others? A boolean BeepWhenReady option
> shouldn't be that hard to implement to please both camps. Bonus points
> for implementing Andy Green's idea:
> 
> 
>>Why not turn this into a PR pluspoint by, for at least the first boot,
>>making a little note on the login display explaining why the beep is
>>there (karma++) and how to turn it off if you are not visually
>>challenged, for extra points a checkbox right there and then.

Right, so make beeping an option; making it play a sound file an option. 
Let me see how that tough that is to add...


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