xkbbell?

Kevin Thompson phlux at ewnix.net
Fri Sep 28 12:48:25 CEST 2012


Greetings,

With more and more users disabling their PC Speaker and rendering the 
system bell useless, should rxvt-unicode call on xkbbell instead? If no 
third party application is listening, I believe xkbbell still calls the 
system bell, but can be customized via xbelld or xkbevd.

Furthermore, the more I'm looking, the more I believe xkbbell is shipped 
with any X.org system (at least it was here in Gentoo, and on my wife's 
Ubuntu install). So I don't believe we'd run into any issues finding the 
package installed.

It's a quick change in the source (one line) that I have committed to my 
local copy of rvxt-unicode. I suppose if this would not be a good 
solution, I could write a patch to enable the option to use xkbbell, 
should the demand be high enough.

Thoughts? Opinions? Am I crazy?




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