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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 26 septembre 2010 à 20:39 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : 
> For non-sighted users, gdm3 should beep or at least provide a way to
> configure some beep when it is ready. The typical situation is a blind
> user installing Debian and enabling the gnome desktop in tasksel. At
> reboot, gdm3 will be presented, but the blind user doesn't have any clue
> when it is ready to accept keypresses. I don't mean enabling a beep by
> default, that could be something that the debian installer enables only
> when accessibility was enabled for the installation.

It shouldn’t be hard to implement with a GConf value that is read in the
greeter. Such a value could easily be set in d-i. 

I would definitely accept a patch to do that.

Cheers,
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