Bug#600486: Bug#598132: gdm3: Should beep or permit to configure a beep

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 19 octobre 2010 à 11:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Sorry but this is not going to happen. What use is there for such a
> > configuration checkbox?
> 
> Err, well, for enabling/disabling it easily, just like other
> accessibility features.

How is beeping in the *user session* an accessibility feature?

> > Furthermore there is nothing in the patch that makes the beep actually
> > happen.
> 
> ?!
> Sure there is: that code toggles
> /desktop/gnome/applications/at/beep_enabled to true, which thus enables
> starting beep from the greeter-autostart.

You are mixing apples (the greeter session) and oranges (the user
session). The control center cannot be used to configure the greeter
session, since it is not executed as the same user.

Cheers,
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