impossible to change bell volume and changing volume changes duration instead
Submitted by ley..@..il.com
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
When executed:
xset b 10 100 20
xset b q shows this:
bell pitch and duration is changed however volume is same as before
Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000002 XKB indicators: 00: Caps Lock: off 01: Num Lock: on 02: Scroll Lock: off 03: Compose: off 04: Kana: off 05: Sleep: off 06: Suspend: off 07: Mute: off 08: Misc: off 09: Mail: off 10: Charging: off 11: Shift Lock: off 12: Group 2: off 13: Mouse Keys: off auto repeat delay: 250 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffefffedffff 9fffffffffffffff fff7ffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 100 bell duration: 20
in reality the duration is changed
xset b 20 400 100
xkbbell --> sounds 20 ms
xset b 50 400 100
xkbbell --> sound 50 ms
Tested on 2 physical machines SLE 11 SP3, openSUSE 13, Oracle Linux 6.5 (this one as VM)
Version: 7.6 (2010.12)