Re: keyboard bell

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:33:03PM -0600, Lee Teague wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just a quick question, and hopefully a quick answer :)
> 
> what's the best way to change the keyboard bell volume? I know it can be done,
> because KDE and Gnome both have an application to do so.  Now I'm using icewm, nd
> I can't figure out a way to change the volume or pitch or anything.  I'd really
> rather not just click somewhere to do it, I'd rather just change it in the
> startup scripts or something.
> 

"xset"  See the man page.

usage:  xset [-display host:dpy] option ...
    To turn bell off:
	-b                b off               b 0
    To set bell volume, pitch and duration:
	 b [vol [pitch [dur]]]          b on

hth,
kent

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