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  • X11 beep default volume?

    From Woozy Song@suzyw0ng@outlook.com to alt.os.linux on Mon May 12 15:36:48 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    I had a user complaining about a program chiming when he clicked the
    mouse on a graph. I couldn't reproduce this apparent bug.
    It is an X11/Motif program, and they require Num Lock off to do any
    mouse picking. Now I did the command
    xset b 99
    to turn on beeps when clicking. So I ran the program with Num Lock on
    and now got beeps. The user was running Ubuntu. I have mostly used
    Centos and a few other distros, and never noticed any beep before.
    So I presume the default was beeps off except for Ubuntu?
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