terminal bell pc speaker

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Jan 6 00:39:00 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at 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 at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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