Hi Tim,
> My wife runs a program on my PC remotely from her windows XP PC, this
> in the most part works very well. The only problem is that when she
> makes a mistake the computer will let out a bleep but the bleep comes
> out of my PC and at times scare the wotsit out of me as I am not
> expecting it.
>
> Now I don't want to kill the sound affects I have on my PC, so how do
> I stop them in this one application that the wife uses. The
> application does not seem to have any configurable setting for sound,
> so I assume it is being controlled by KDE itself.
>
> We use Xlaunch and putty on the wifes PC to make the remote
> connection. My PC is running Mepis8 (Debian Lenny)
Sound in X was normally all done through the XBell(3) protocol request
from the client to the server. Simple X clients like xterm(1) still use
that, so she should find that typing
printf \\a
in an xterm that's running on your machine but displaying on hers beeps
for her and not you. That would be a good first test to make sure that
side of things is working as expected.
I'm guessing the KDE X client the wife's using does sound differently.
I don't suppose you'll get the sound to go over an X connection to a XP
machine instead. The best you can do is not have it come out on your
machine at all. Is she logging into her own account, separate from
yours on the Linux machine? I know little of KDE so perhaps someone who
knows how it finds a sound server to talk to can comment.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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