[SOLVED] Where's my beep? (GNOME Terminal)

jsteel · 01-16-2010, 03:24 PM

If I switch to a non-graphical environment my beep works fine (if I press tab multiple times or if I "echo -en '\007'") but in my GNOME Terminal I cannot get it to beep.

The module pcspkr is loaded
Terminal bell is ticked in my terminal profile

Thanks

tgp1994 · 01-17-2010, 10:22 AM

Why do you need it to beep? Try checking the ALSA sound mixer.

jsteel · 01-17-2010, 11:39 AM

Beep is unmuted and at full volume; it works fine outside of GNOME.

I want to get my computer to beep once it has finished running script (so I know when to pay it attention).

tgp1994 · 01-17-2010, 11:57 AM

Ok. Have you done apt-get install beep? Try installing that.

jsteel · 01-17-2010, 03:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgp1994

Ok. Have you done apt-get install beep? Try installing that.

Thanks that does the trick; didn't think of trying that. If anything this way is better as I didn't really want it to beep while pressing tab in the command-line interface.

tgp1994 · 01-17-2010, 04:04 PM

If fact you could probably make a shell script that plays a song with the beep binary, since you can control pitch (-f) and length (I don't know the switch for that.)