*customizing* the terminal bell?

[Matthew Miller]

Okay, so, I know it's often annoying, but on the other hand, I sometimes
like a simple audio alert when some shell command is done, via echo -e '\a'.
On the local system, I can substitute some command-line audio player and a
wav file, but if the system I'm working on is remote (and it usually is),
that's no good.

It seems like if I'm on a system without a pcspkr device, there's no way to
get a beep at all (?!), and if I am on one, there's no way to make it use
the sound card to play something less jarring.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks.

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