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From: weening@GANG-OF-FOUR.STANFORD.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Emacs/X11 beep volume
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Date: 10 Sep 89 17:01:03 GMT
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I am using an X terminal whose maximum beep volume is quite loud, so I
set it very low (20%) to make it comfortable.  But Emacs, in XTfeep()
in x11term.c, calls

	XBell (XXdisplay,50);

which makes the volume be 20 - (20 * 50) / 100 + 50 = 60 percent,
three times as loud as I want.  Is there any reason why Emacs is
overriding the user's choice of beep volume?  If not, it should call
XBell with 0 as the second argument.
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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University