On 5/13/16, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > Mark Kettenis wrote: >> >> I personally think the wsconsctl settings should be respected by X. > >> But perhaps we should have a more fundamental discussion about things >> first about how X should interact with wscons. There is a more >> fundamental problem here where X assumes it has full control over the >> hardware. There still is the volume key issue and there are problems > > Implementation issues aside, as a user, my expectation is that X is a > client > of the hardware. Therefore any "hardware" settings I have configured > elsewhere > will be respected. I don't see any difference between speaker volume and > network interfaces. X uses my existing network configuration, so it should > be > the same for other interfaces.
Yes, it seems inconsistent for X to "respect" only the first of the following two settings: $ cat /etc/wsconsctl.conf keyboard.encoding=us.swapctrlcaps keyboard.bell.volume=0 # mute keyboard beep --patrick
