Terminal bell/beep in XFCE

[Sam Varshavchik]

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?

[Heinz Diehl]

On 28.12.2014, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> After switching to XFCE, one thing that I'm missing fondly is the terminal
> beep/bell.

What is the output of "grep -i bell ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc"?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Heinz Diehl writes:
> On 28.12.2014, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > After switching to XFCE, one thing that I'm missing fondly is the terminal
> > beep/bell.
>
> What is the output of "grep -i bell ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc"?

[Configuration]
ColorBackground=#ffffffffffff
MiscAlwaysShowTabs=FALSE
MiscBell=FALSE
MiscBordersDefault=TRUE
MiscCursorBlinks=FALSE
MiscCursorShape=TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
MiscDefaultGeometry=80x24
MiscInheritGeometry=FALSE
MiscMenubarDefault=TRUE
MiscMouseAutohide=FALSE
MiscToolbarDefault=FALSE
MiscConfirmClose=TRUE
MiscCycleTabs=TRUE
MiscTabCloseButtons=TRUE
MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=TRUE
MiscTabPosition=GTK_POS_TOP
MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE
ColorForeground=#000000000000

I don't see any knobs in xfce4-terminal for that "MiscBell" setting, though.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Sam Varshavchik writes:
> Heinz Diehl writes:
> > On 28.12.2014, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > After switching to XFCE, one thing that I'm missing fondly is the terminal
> > > beep/bell.
> >
> > What is the output of "grep -i bell ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc"?
>
> [Configuration]
> ColorBackground=#ffffffffffff
> MiscAlwaysShowTabs=FALSE
> MiscBell=FALSE
> MiscBordersDefault=TRUE
> MiscCursorBlinks=FALSE
> MiscCursorShape=TERMINAL_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK
> MiscDefaultGeometry=80x24
> MiscInheritGeometry=FALSE
> MiscMenubarDefault=TRUE
> MiscMouseAutohide=FALSE
> MiscToolbarDefault=FALSE
> MiscConfirmClose=TRUE
> MiscCycleTabs=TRUE
> MiscTabCloseButtons=TRUE
> MiscTabCloseMiddleClick=TRUE
> MiscTabPosition=GTK_POS_TOP
> MiscHighlightUrls=TRUE
> ColorForeground=#000000000000
>
> I don't see any knobs in xfce4-terminal for that "MiscBell" setting, though.

I manually changed MiscBell to TRUE, but that didn't help.

[fedora]

try install gnome-terminal under XFCE?
yum install gnome-terminal

suomi

On 2014-12-28 16:10, 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?

[David A. De Graaf]

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.
That causes play (or sox) to send output directly to the alsa device,
bypassing pulseaudio.  That allows root, or any user, to run it.
Depending on your audio hardware, you might have to alter hw:0.
Check with aplay -l.

[Heinz Diehl]

On 28.12.2014, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> I manually changed MiscBell to TRUE, but that didn't help.

Yes, it did some time ago. Unfortunately, this seems to be a bug which
different maintainers/people still try to assign to each other,
without any solution..

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607393

[Sam Varshavchik]

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.