Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:12:49 -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: <20070627041249.GA14097@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <1182915162.91835.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:32:42PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 18:25 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Those settings work for me. I've never had a problem with the system
> beep.
>
Be awful strange to have two computers with the same defect;
a broken speaker. ...I just tried again. Setting the screen to
flash flashes the screen whenever the BEL should should.
Here (old/present tao, running CTWM), echo "'\007'" sunds the
bell plus '' to the screen. On both Gnome desktops, just a flash
(plus, of course, '' to stdout).
If anybody else is following this, any ideas? What, in /dev,
controls the system spkr?
gary
PS: I guess I could use the KDE emulation if/iff I can find the
right wav. ...
> Joe
>
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