| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:40:13 +0100 |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 05:57:17PM -0500, Kevin Brosius wrote: > The x in it's name implies it sets properties in the X-server, which has > very little to do with whether or not it's POSIX compliant. It's an x > client app. Of course, the neat thing is you could set your DISPLAY > variable, and with the proper access to the server you ought to be able > to turn the bell on and off at a remote location (from your headless > box)... Or play Kraftwerk's "We Are the Robots" from five Ultra 10s simultaneously in the middle of a CS class on April 1. (Not that that necessarily needs X, but it does need control of the console.) Which only never happened at Swarthmore because I graduated before I encountered another April 1 after I thought of doing it. ;^> And I'm not convinced that xset's -b flag isn't just an ease-of-use wrapper around control of the actual beep device. (Some of the other stuff that it does is X specific. This isn't.) But I haven't looked at the source. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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