On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:25 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 10:33 -0500, suseROCKS wrote:
> > Thanks again to all who responded regarding the visual accessibility
> > question.  I have another question.  In addition to being
> > visually-impaired, I am also hearing-impaired.  :-)
> > 
> > In Macintosh OSX, they have a feature for hearing impaired users where
> > the screen lightly flickers whenever there are alerts or events, such as
> > incoming IM, email, etc.
> > 
> > Is there anything similar to that for Gnome?  I haven't found anything
> > yet.
> 
> Under sound preferences in the control center you can turn on visual
> system bell (in the system beep section).  Not sure that will go as far
> as you want, but it might be a start.
> 
Well... It was a start.  

I enabled as per your steps, and watched... nothing happened when I had
incoming messages or anything.  Then I was in gnome-terminal and
accidentally discovered it.  I had backspaced too much and BLAM! like a
photoflash in my face!  Whoa!   Obviously I needed a few minutes for the
spots to clear before I could type this message.  :-)

It seems to truly be only for system beeps and nothing else.  So I can't
be alerted when I get instant messages and such.

Oh well... guess I should file an enhancement request or something.  The
Accessibility app doesn't seem to cover issues related to deaf users.

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---Bryen---

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