Visual bell problem

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2 total messages Started by Hugh Fader Fri, 22 May 1992 20:10

#1374

Author: Hugh Fader
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 20:10

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I am having a problem with epoch using the visual bell. In my .emacs
file I have (epoch::set-bell t) to turn off the audible bell and turn
on the visual bell. When I initially set this up, the visual bell was
a very fast flicker of the screen, sometimes barely perceptible.
Later, I observed on a remote client epoch that the visual bell has
about a one second duration. The difference is the DISPLAY environment
variable. If DISPLAY is set to :0.0, I get the very fast visual bell.
If DISPLAY is set to hostname:0.0, I get the one second visual bell -- 
even with a local epoch client process.

My environment is SunOS 4.1 with Open Windows ver. 3.
--
Hugh Fader
hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com

Visual bell problem

#1377

Author: Marc Andreessen
Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 11:08

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   I am having a problem with epoch using the visual bell. In my .emacs
   file I have (epoch::set-bell t) to turn off the audible bell and turn
   on the visual bell. When I initially set this up, the visual bell was
   a very fast flicker of the screen, sometimes barely perceptible.
   Later, I observed on a remote client epoch that the visual bell has
   about a one second duration. The difference is the DISPLAY environment
   variable. If DISPLAY is set to :0.0, I get the very fast visual bell.
   If DISPLAY is set to hostname:0.0, I get the one second visual bell -- 
   even with a local epoch client process.

This isn't an Epoch problem; this is strictly a function of your X
server.  Many X servers exhibit this type of behavior for a wide range
of clients.

If you want to pursue the problem, beat on Sun to make their X server
smart enough to realize that hostname:0.0 == :0.0 for the local host.

Marc

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Marc Andreessen
Software Development Group
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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