xkbbell?

[Marc Lehmann]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:48:25AM -0500, Kevin Thompson <phlux at ewnix.net> wrote:
> 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.

If that is the case, I think the right way to proceed would be to teach
X iself about this, instead of patching every application to use such a
fragile mechanism.

> Furthermore, the more I'm looking, the more I believe xkbbell is
> shipped with any X.org system

Well, what's an X.org system? :)

> Thoughts? Opinions? Am I crazy?

No, you are trying to save a problem, but you only solve a tiny part of
the problem. Lots of apps use the bell, and would need patching too. It's
much better to patch the X-server instead. That would have the advantage
of working with remote displays as well.

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