also sprach Christian Jaeger (on Fri, 06 Jul 2001 01:50:41PM +0200):
> 1. switch off console beep (internal pc speaker) in gnome-terminal
> (or alltogether). Or let gnome-terminal issue a sound to esd /
> /dev/dsp / whatever, so as to let one control volume.
xset b 0
> 2. let the internal speaker beep through a remote command (so that I
> can login from remote, and let the speaker beep until a person sits
> down to the computer, logs in and answers my 'talk' request).
echo ^G (that's ctrl-v,g - i.e. hold control and then press v and g
in succession)
this does not work over an SSH connection that has X forwarding AFAIK
if you xset b 0 locally.
martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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