Re: Visual bell too loud

karlheg(a)inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > >>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: > > Hrvoje> It would also be a good idea to implement something a la > Hrvoje> FSFmacs `ring-bell-function', only perhaps as a console > Hrvoje> method... > > Neat idea, I think. It would be possible to write a function that > tells the window manager to do something interesting with the frame. > It would be fun with `scwm' or `gwm'. :-) Yep -- this'd be very easy to do with scwmexec, or better, with X11 Properties. > In the same vein, it would be good to be able to set an arbitrary > window property from lisp, I think, for signalling the window > manager. (I think what I mean is called a property; it's an atom > attached to a window that you can stuff a string in or read a string > from.) Exactly. In scwm, the X-PropertyNotify-hook can be used to watch for changes in properties on a given window. If XEmacs set, e.g., a WM_ATTENTION property on a frame, scwm can notice that and do whatever it wants (most likely flash the window color, or something similar). See http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb/scwm-doc/c0314.htm Robert Bihlmeyer has a similar patch for xterms that make the visual bell set an X11 property. Ideally, if XEmacs' support for X properties is complete, scwmexec could be rewritten in Emacs lisp, thus avoiding an exec in scwm-mode (where you can use [X]Emacs to interact with the scheme interpreter embedded in Scwm). Greg