Beep on X11 login screen

[Michael K. Johnson]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:40:11AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> to my knowledge, no, it cannot be disabled. And why does it matter? It's
> a single beep.

Because, say, you are booting in a meeting and beeping is distracting.
Because you are watching a sleeping baby, and everyone knows you do
NOT WAKE A SLEEPING BABY.  Because...  I would suggest that the
reasons are endless.  It so obviously should be configurable; it seems
to me just as obvious as that the default should be beeping to help
enable initial blind/vision-limited installs...

michaelkjohnson

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