Re: alert sound

Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 20:12, David Shochat wrote:
> 
>>echo -e "\a"
>>
>>and get an audible alert (bell) sound. 
> 
> Works for me ... you don't happen to have the X beep turned off, do you?
> (gnome-keyboard-properties)
> 
I checked that, and it appears to be set to "beep". So I guess something is broken for me. Would it be gnome-terminal? Or is it an X protocol request that is not being honored (in which case this is clearly the wrong place to be pursuing this)?
-- David