From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 04:12:52 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 BA41A16A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:12:52 +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 3345E13C448 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:12:52 +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 l5R4CoiY014232; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l5R4Cn4q014231; Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:12:49 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20070627041249.GA14097@thought.org> References: <20070626210103.GA11420@thought.org> <1182893287.91835.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20070627012537.GB13247@thought.org> <1182915162.91835.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1182915162.91835.57.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 04:12:52 -0000 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 > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix