Re: [PLUG] System Bell - Beep!

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

hi zeek,

try printf '\a' with single quotes.  also, you may need to turn your
system bell on for your xsession with xset (man xset).


hth
	sean

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:10:01PM -0400, zeek wrote:
> 
> Greets PLUGgers,
> 
> Does anyone know how to ring a system bell, a beep w/o additional software? I've
> tried:
> 
> echo -n -e "\a"  and  echo -n -e "\007"
> 
> but neither of these are working --even for systems which ring bells on other
> calls.
> 
> 
> I want to work this into a BB monitoring alert.
> 
> Cheers,
> -zeek
> 
> Sparklehouse Media and Technologies
> http://sparklehouse.com
> 
> 
> 
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