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+<chapter id='Keyboard_Bells'>
+<title>Keyboard Bells</title>
+
+<para>
+The core protocol provides requests to control the pitch, volume and duration
+of the keyboard bell and a request to explicitly sound the bell.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+The X Keyboard Extension allows clients to disable the audible bell, attach a
+symbolic name to a bell request or receive an event when the keyboard bell is
+rung.
+</para>
+
+<sect1 id='Client_Notification_of_Bells'>
+<title>Client Notification of Bells</title>
+
+<para>
+Clients can ask to receive <emphasis>
+XkbBellNotify</emphasis>
+ event when a bell is requested by a client or generated by the server. Bells
+can be sounded due to core protocol <emphasis>
+Bell</emphasis>
+ requests, X Input Extension <emphasis>
+DeviceBell</emphasis>
+ requests, X Keyboard Extension <emphasis>
+XkbBell</emphasis>
+ requests or for reasons internal to the server such as the XKB <emphasis>
+AccessXFeedback</emphasis>
+ control.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+Bell events caused by the <emphasis>
+XkbBell</emphasis>
+ request or by the <emphasis>
+AccessXFeedback</emphasis>
+ control include an optional window and symbolic name for the bell. If present,
+the window makes it possible to provide some kind of visual indication of which
+window caused the sound. The symbolic name can report some information about
+the reason the bell was generated and makes it possible to generate a distinct
+sound for each type of bell.
+</para>
+
+
+</sect1>
+<sect1 id='Disabling_Server_Generated_Bells'>
+<title>Disabling Server Generated Bells</title>
+
+<para>
+The global <emphasis>
+AudibleBell</emphasis>
+ boolean control for a keyboard indicates whether bells sent to that device
+should normally cause the server to generate a sound. Applications which
+provide "sound effects" for the various named bells will typically disable the
+server generation of bells to avoid burying the user in sounds.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+When the <emphasis>
+AudibleBell</emphasis>
+ control is active, all bells caused by core protocol <emphasis>
+Bell</emphasis>
+ and X Input Extension <emphasis>
+DeviceBell</emphasis>
+ requests cause the server to generate a sound, as do all bells generated by
+the XKB <emphasis>
+AccessXFeedback</emphasis>
+ control. Bells requested via the X<emphasis>
+kbBell</emphasis>
+ request normally cause a server-generated sound, but clients can ask the
+server not to sound the default keyboard bell.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+When the <emphasis>
+AudibleBell</emphasis>
+ control is disabled, the server generates a sound only for bells that are
+generated using the <emphasis>
+XkbBell</emphasis>
+ request and which specify forced delivery of the bell.
+</para>
+
+
+</sect1>
+<sect1 id='Generating_Named_Bells'>
+<title>Generating Named Bells</title>
+
+<para>
+The <emphasis>
+XkbBell</emphasis>
+ request allows clients to specify a symbolic name which is reported in the
+bell events they cause. Bells generated by the <emphasis>
+AccessXFeedback</emphasis>
+ control of this extension also include a symbolic name, but all kinds of
+feedback cause a single event even if they sound multiple tones.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+The X server is permitted to use symbolic bell names (when present) to generate
+sounds other than simple tones, but it is not required to do so.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+Aside from those used by the XKB <emphasis>
+AccessXFeedback</emphasis>
+ control (see <link linkend='The_AccessXFeedback_Control'>The AccessXFeedback
+Control</link>), this extension does not specify bell names or their
+interpretation.
+</para>
+
+
+</sect1>
+<sect1 id='Generating_Optional_Named_Bells'>
+<title>Generating Optional Named Bells</title>
+
+<para>
+Under some circumstances, some kind of quiet audio feedback is useful, but a
+normal keyboard bell is not. For example, a quiet "launch effect" can be
+helpful to let the user know that an application has been started, but a loud
+bell would simply be annoying.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+To simplify generation of these kinds of effects, the <emphasis>
+XkbBell</emphasis>
+ request allows clients to specify "event only" bells. The X server never
+generates a normal keyboard bell for "event only" bells, regardless of the
+setting of the global <emphasis>
+AudibleBell</emphasis>
+ control.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+If the X server generates different sounds depending bell name, it is permitted
+to generate a sound even for "event only" bells. This field is intended simply
+to weed out "normal" keyboard bells.
+</para>
+
+
+</sect1>
+<sect1 id='Forcing_a_Server_Generated_Bell'>
+<title>Forcing a Server Generated Bell</title>
+
+<para>
+Occasionally, it is useful to force the server to generate a sound. For
+example, a client could "filter" server bells, generating sound effects for
+some but sounding the normal server bell for others. Such a client needs a way
+to tell the server that the requested bell should be generated regardless of
+the setting of the <emphasis>
+AudibleBell</emphasis>
+ control.
+</para>
+
+
+<para>
+To simplify this process, clients which call the <emphasis>
+XkbBell</emphasis>
+ request can specify that a bell is forced. A forced bell always causes a
+server generated sound and never causes a <emphasis>
+XkbBellNotify</emphasis>
+ event. Because forced bells do not cause bell notify events, they have no
+associated symbolic name or event window.
+</para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>