[Bug 183922] New: Accessibility Keyboard Beep Without Any Context

[andrew at acooke.org]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183922

           Summary: Accessibility Keyboard Beep Without Any Context
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: andrew at acooke.org


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

For several weeks I have been worried my motherboard was about to fail.  At
apparently random intervals the computer "beeped" using the tinny, on-board
piezo speaker, that is never used for anything.

Today, I finally realised that the beep happens when I hold the shift key down
for 5 seconds.

There's a popup that explains accessibility options after 8 seconds, but the
beep was causing me to lift my finger to see what the noise was.  So I never
got to see the popup.

Apart from the mobo soundcard (whose outputs are unconnected) I have a second
soundcard to which music is routed (in the KDE control panel) and which is
connected to an amp and headphones.  Accessibility and system notifications go
to the mobo.

As far as I know, I have never heard this same beep (the tinny piezoelectric
beep) for any other notification (generally, as far as I can remember, the
computer seems pretty much silent - I assume because the mobo sound outputs are
not connected to a speaker).

As far as I can remember, I first noticed the beep when upgrading to OpenSuse
11.1.  With 11.0 I didn't have this beep.  Since I was using various "unstable"
repositories at the time I cannot reliably report on the KDE version that I was
using then.

I realise this is rather vague, but my hope is that someone else can confirm
that the "shift key down 5 secs beep" is routed in an unusual way.

And even if that is not the case, why can't the popup occur with the beep?

I don't think I can explain just how frustrating it has been worrying that my
computer (critical for my work) is about to fail.  I've been reading through
system logs, checking my UPS, etc etc.

(I have now disabled everything via the 8 second popup).


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