GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 353455
Add API to beep a specific window
Last modified: 2011-02-04 16:11:01 UTC
Currently, GDK only has gdk_display_beep and gdk_beep, which make a display beep. Yet using XKB it is possible to beep a *window* so that, for example, the window manager can flash its decorations; metacity, for example, listens to XkbBellNotify when XKB is available on the server. See bug #167783 for a specific instance of this. The following patch adds a gtk_window_beep, with implemented in X11 using XkbBell when we HAVE_XKB and using a plain ol' gdk_display_beep on the window's display otherwise; on non-X11 the patch just calls gdk_beep: I do not know how to make a window beep anywhere else ;-) If this gets commited, then one should go through the few calls to gdk_beep and gdk_display_beep in the gtk source, and replace them by gdk_window_beep... This has a11y consequences, I guess.
Created attachment 71853 [details] [review] Add gdk_window_beep.
Sounds like a very reasonable addition to me.
Ah cool; and then metacity can be made to do theurgency effect on those windows.
2006-08-29 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com> * gdk/gdkwindow.h: * gdk/gdk.symbols: * gdk/directfb/gdkwindow-directfb.c (gdk_window_beep): * gdk/win32/gdkwindow-win32.c (gdk_window_beep): * gdk/quartz/gdkwindow-quartz.c (gdk_window_beep): * gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c (gdk_window_beep): Add a function to beep on a window. For X11, implement this with XkbBell. (#353455, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez)