Beep on X11 login screen

Paul W. Frields paul at frields.com
Fri Oct 24 20:12:06 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:42, Joshua Legbandt wrote:
> > > Each time the X11 login screen appears , I hear a console beep.
> > > That is one beep on bootup, and then one each time I logout and the
> > > login screen reappears.
> > > 
> > It is quite intentional - it is there so blind users can know when they
> > have a prompt awaiting login.

> Any way to disable this feature? It is quite annoying when you are not
> blind and trying to boot up with a minimum amount of noise.

Doesn't seem to be. You may want to file an RFE with GNOME upstream if
it really bothers you; this is not a Red Hat-specific problem. (You
might also want to put in a Bugzilla entry with a link to the GNOME BZ
entry, I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is in this case.)
-- 
Paul W. Frields <paul at frields.com>





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