If a compatible keyboard extension isn't present in the X server,
XkbBell calls XBell with the specified display and percent,
and returns False. Otherwise, XkbBell calls XkbDeviceBell
with the specified display, window, percent, and name, a device_spec
of XkbUseCoreKbd, a bell_class of
However, if you use XkbBell() then you can have a process listening for
the XkbBellNotifyEvent that is produced and either alert you visually or
play an audio file or whatever you want as your notification. You have
to include one more header file but the function seems to be compiled as
I like the idea of the patch, but I would like know how this function
works. I mean, you say that you can have a process listenning for the
event, but, what happens if you don't have such process?
From the manual pages
If a compatible keyboard extension isn't present in the X server,
XkbBell
The XBell() call currently used when a bell is recieved sends a message
to the X server, but if the X server doesn't know how to sound it,
it just gets ignored and I have not been able to find anywhere in x.org's
code a way to configure the action that the server does.
However, if you use
Hello,
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:25 PM, CustaiCo custa...@openmailbox.org wrote:
The XBell() call currently used when a bell is recieved sends a message
to the X server, but if the X server doesn't know how to sound it,
it just gets ignored and I have not been able to find anywhere in x.org's
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:25 PM, CustaiCo custaico_AT_openmailbox.org
wrote:
The XBell() call currently used when a bell is recieved sends a message
to the X server, but if the X server doesn't know how to sound it,
it just gets ignored and I have not been able to find anywhere in x.org's
code
