Re: git: 225639e7db68 - main - vt: Disable bell by default

From: Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:52:26 UTC
This discussion to date has been data free. I created a poll...

https://twitter.com/bsdimp/status/1451274644439265308

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:59 PM Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@freebsd.org>
wrote:

> On 21.10.2021 20:03, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:02:14AM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> > S> > laptops. If somebody is using vt(4) instead of X on a laptop, then
> > S>
> > S> This change disable bell in X11 too.
> > S> This is completly disable speaker bell.
> >
> > Are you sure? I haven't yet upgraded my desktop to this point, so can't
> test.
> > How is that possible that vt(4) affects X11?
> >
> pre-evdev X11 got keyboard input from tty subsystem
>
> and post-evdev X11 still affected by it. We have local X11 patch which
> disables bell on ttyv8, otherwise you'll hear annoying sound as soon as
> tty buffer get filled up.
>
> But you have to have custom X11 build to hear bell under X11
>
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> Vladimir Kondratyev
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