Re: alert sound

Owen Taylor <[email protected]> 25 May 2003 11:42:51 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.os.redhat
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 20:12, David Shochat wrote:
> In bash, it should be possible for example to do:
> 
> echo -e "\a"
> 
> and get an audible alert (bell) sound. This does work with bash at work (in a dtterm under Solaris with CDE). I have RedHat 9 with GNOME. What do I do to get the alert sound to work in a gnome-terminal? I do have "GNOME system events" sounds working, if that is relevant.

Works for me ... you don't happen to have the X beep turned off, do you?
(gnome-keyboard-properties)

Regards,
                                                Owen