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Re: [PLUG] speaker beep question
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gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
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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.
>
> ;^>
Hmm. (Kevin puts on a sly smile and considers that all his coworkers
here have Ultra 5s. And he owns a couple of them some practical jokes.)
>
> 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.
Good point, I haven't looked at the code either...
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Kevin Brosius
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