Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> said:
>AFAIK there is no way to get the PC speaker to beep anymore in X;
the
>PulseAudio author decided nobody should use that anymore. The best you
>can do is enable the alert sound effect, assuming you have a sound
>device in the computer and speakers connected.
That only works in metacity. Does not work in Compiz.
See my follow-up message; basically, compiz doesn't catch the X beep (as
it shouldn't), so load the pcspkr module (it isn't loaded by default)
and you should get the PC speaker beep.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.