From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 01:25:42 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4F416A421 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45DD913C448 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l5R1Pcqm013416; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:25:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l5R1PbwF013415; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:25:37 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20070627012537.GB13247@thought.org> References: <20070626210103.GA11420@thought.org> <1182893287.91835.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1182893287.91835.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , Gnome at FreeBSD List Subject: Re: system BEL ('\007') not work under Gnome: why? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:25:42 -0000 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 > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix