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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Re: BEEP?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.112014.19381@cas.org>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:17:32 GMT
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- whatever we do, could we be VERY careful about how we implement it? I have
- seen problems where applications call the X bell routines to do this. The
- problem with this is in cases where a large number of bells are attempted.
- This causes the X server to be flooded with requests and it is not able
- to process much of anything else. For instance, when I cut a very large
- xterm buffer and paste it, either the xterm I am using, or the console
- window software that I am using, uses the X bell routine to ring the bell
- for each character over a certain cut buffer limit. This causes my
- workstation to hang for a long time. It is VERY frustrating.
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