Re: Beeps due to pbbuttonsd 0.5.9-2

[Matthias Grimm <matthias.grimm@htp-tel.de>]

Am Freitag, 26. März 2004 22:54 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> No, the lid is open and I use neither an external keyboard nor a
> monitor. I use the PowerBook from another machine via VNC.
>
> > In this case I implemented a heartbeat beep as reminder that the
> > machine is still powered up. I have heard from some people that this
> > could be very annoying so you could disable this feature by setting
> > HeartbeatBeep = no.
>
> The pbbuttonsd.conf(5) man page says:
>
>      To have always a sign of life from the computer pbbuttonsd would
>      play a beep every roundabout 30  seconds  if  the  computer  was
>      still  running  with  closed lid.
>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> But the lid isn't closed. There seems to be a bug.

I have just had a look into the source and found that the heartbeet beep is 
not related to the lid so the description in the man page is inaccurate and 
will be changed in the future.

The heartbeat beep would be activated if pbbuttonsd was configured to switch 
off screen instead of entering sleep mode. You work via VNC which causes that 
pbbuttonsd receives neither keyboard nor mouse events and after awaiting the 
configured idle time it tries to enter sleep mode (or blank screen). After  
that the computer looks like switched off and the heartbeep beep was enabled.

My recommendation: Please set HeartbeepBeep = no.

I will correct the man page to make the mechanism clearer for the future.

  Best Regards
    Matthias