turning off the beep
YONETANI Tomokazu
qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx
Mon Jan 9 00:42:00 PST 2006
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:24:25PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:02:32AM -0500, Erik V. Smith wrote:
> > With 1.4.0 Release, "kbdcontrol -b quiet.off" should turn off the
> > keyboard beep, however it is not being disabled. Furthermore,
> > "kbdcontrol -b visual" does not cause the screen to flash at the
> > appropriate time.
>
> I don't see a difference between `-b off' and `-b quiet.off', as the
> former has always worked for me to turn off the beep. The patch below
> should make `-b quiet.off' a synonym to `-b off'. Do you like it?
> As for `-b visual', it works as it is; the screen flashes, for instance,
> when I hit backspace at the beginning of line, or when I run printf '\007' .
And this one should also fix `-b quiet.visual' which drhodus@ mentioned
earlier on kernel@ with a subject "BEEPING":
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2005-08/msg00050.html
Index: kbdcontrol.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/source/dragonfly/cvs/src/usr.sbin/kbdcontrol/kbdcontrol.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 kbdcontrol.c
--- kbdcontrol.c 30 Oct 2005 23:00:57 -0000 1.5
+++ kbdcontrol.c 9 Jan 2006 08:34:39 -0000
@@ -858,7 +858,7 @@
{
int bell, duration, pitch;
- bell = 0;
+ bell = duration = pitch = 0;
if (!strncmp(opt, "quiet.", 6)) {
bell = 2;
opt += 6;
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
else if (!strcmp(opt, "normal"))
duration = 5, pitch = 800;
else if (!strcmp(opt, "off"))
- duration = 0, pitch = 0;
+ bell = 0;
else {
char *v1;
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