[456] in Athena Bugs
re: RT 5.5 and 6.0: can't turn off keyclick
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Fri Jun 24 10:20:06 1988
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 88 10:16:49 EDT
To: John E Elsbree (Athena User Consultant) <elsj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: rt-testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John E Elsbree (Athena User Consultant) <elsj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Thu, 23 Jun 88 21:58:58 EDT
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> A user called the Consulting Hotline tonight to inform us that
> 'xset' doesn't turn off the keyclick when used in any of the
> following forms:
> xset c off
> xset c 0
> xset -c
> He was using a field RT (5.5), I tried it on a 6.0A RT, with the
> same results.
I just verified that this bug is FIXED in RT 6.0B.
Workarounds: In RT 5.5T, the meanings of 0 and 1 are reversed; you
can disable the click with "xset c 1". In RT 6.0A the bug got worse;
xset c 19 will change the pitch of the click, but that is the only
modification it will accept. . .
Jerry
