Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:25:37 -0700
From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, Gnome at FreeBSD List <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: system BEL ('\007') not work under Gnome: why?
Message-ID: <20070627012537.GB13247@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <1182893287.91835.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References: <20070626210103.GA11420@thought.org> <1182893287.91835.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:28:07PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:01 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > Same thing under Gnome on my Ubuntu platform too. It was new;
> > and now with my Dell, again, the beep that I like in vi/vim
> > doesn't sound. i can write a C program to putchar('\007');
> > and the system sound here, altho thru my speakers rather than the
> > computer itself.
> >
> > KDE has an emulator but so far I've only gotten to to make a
> > strange sound. This under Ubuntu. Wrong wav file. How do I
> > set up a bell.wav under gnome? I don't like and can't see the
> > screen flash when I'm making sure my fingers hit the hright
> > keys....more/less.
>
> Look at the Sound capplet. There is a tab there that will allow you to
> enable the system beep.
Um, exactly where do I click? If you mean the Prefs or Admin
menues, I have found "Sound" and did enable the system beep.
Nothing happpens. On the first tab, I can play all the clicks
and bongs, and other wav files, but that's all. Same on both
FreeBSD and Ubuntu. nada.
gary
>
> Joe
>
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