System::Beep() removal (2nd)

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 14:17:16 PDT 2013


On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 16:18 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 	System beeps essentially don't work (at least on Linux) and on terminal
> servers particularly.
> 
> 	I wonder if we could instead play a sound with the avmedia backend - of
> course, it'd be synchronous and lamer - but then, people using 'Beep'
> deserve everything they get I guess ;-)

For the Linux case I still reckon Application::Beep -> XBell has the
highest chance of getting a Beep to happen where the user is sitting
than any fancy pants solution :-) And its probably easier to resurrect
that code.

C.



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