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

[Samuel Thibault]

Josselin Mouette, le Tue 19 Oct 2010 13:57:59 +0200, a écrit :
> 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?

This is not about the user session, but about the Debian-gdm session,
used for gdm3.

> > > 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).

No, gdm does. It uses the Debian-gdm session for the greeter.

> The control center cannot be used to configure the greeter
> session, since it is not executed as the same user.

It is, in the gdm3 case, thanks to the Debian-gdm special user.

Samuel