David A. De Graaf writes:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:10:09AM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
After switching to XFCE, one thing that I'm missing fondly is the terminal beep/bell.
I don't see any promising setting in xfce4-terminal. What I'm looking for
is
what Gnome did – use an audio effect for a terminal beep, and not the motherboard speaker. Anyone knows if that's possible?
Here's a script, /usr/local/bin/beep, that I find useful:
NBEEPS=${1:-10000} REP=`expr $NBEEPS - 1` AUDIODEV=hw:0 /bin/play /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-App-Message.ogg \ gain -0 pad 0 .4 reverb repeat $REP 2> /dev/null
Note the use of AUDIODEV=hw:0 setting for the /bin/play command.
Well, yes, that's the way to play the terminal bell sound.
This is the easy part. The difficult part here is to arrange for all of this to happen when something prints ASCII BEL in an xfce4-terminal console.
It's funny how the expected behavior sinks down in your subconsiousness to the point that you only become aware of it when it no longer occurs.