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Re: sunblade real slow

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri Jun 22 22:08:36 2001

Message-Id: <200106230208.WAA27792@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:08:30 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>



> > Fascinatingly, the keyboard-properties capplet's sliders do affect the
> > keyboard bell (but only the one you get from the "test" button there,
> > not the real one).  However, most of the sliders (like volume, pitch,
> > etc.) actually change the duration of the beep, and in an
> > unpredictable way.  Whee!
> 
> Can you please state this in a less gnomalicious fashion? What program
> does "keyboard-properties capplet" refer to?
> 
> "xset b"'s control of the duration does work.

"keyboard-properties capplet" is what you get if you run
keyboard-properties at the prompt, or if you visit the keyboard
section of Control Center (where most or all of the capplets on the
system are accessible from).  "capplets" are short for "control
applets" or somesuch.

-B.


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