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kb(4S)

CLICK(1)  —  USER COMMANDS

NAME

click − control the keyboard keystroke click sound

SYNOPSIS

click [ −y ] [ −n ] [ −d keyboard device ]

DESCRIPTION

Change the setting of the audible keyboard click.  The default is no keyboard click.  If you want to turn clicking on then a good place to do it is in /etc/rc.local. 

Only keyboards that support a clicker respond to this command.  At the time of this writing, the only keyboard known to have a clicker is the Sun 3 keyboard. 

OPTIONS

−yYes, enable clicking. 

−nNo, disable clicking. 

−d keyboard device
Specify the keyboard device being set.  The default is /dev/kbd. 

SEE ALSO

kb(4S)

DIAGNOSTICS

A short help message is printed if an unknown flag is specified or if the −d switch is used and the keyboard device name is not supplied.  A diagnostic is printed if the keyboard device name can’t be opened or is not a keyboard type device. 

BUGS

There is no way to determine the state of the keyboard click setting. 

Sun Release 3.2  —  Last change: 18 December 1985

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