licq question

[<debuser@platinum.globalmart.com>]

I'm using licq (from potato).  Since I don't have a sound card, I thought
I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options
dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get
a new message. The strange thing to me is that this works fine if I start
licq from a shell like Eterm, but doesn't work if I start licq from the
menu. I thought it might be a path problem, so I put the complete path
(/bin/echo) in the command and this didn't make a difference.  Anyone
have any ideas why this would happen? 

Thanks,

Gerry