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Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm



On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:55:27 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jo, 20 ian 11, 18:38:35, Joe Riel wrote:
> > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm?
> > 
> > $ xset q | grep bell
> >   bell percent:  100    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
> > 
> > But echoing ^G,
> > 
> > $ echo <Ctrl>-v <Ctrl>-g
> > 
> > makes no beep.
> 
> Does it work on the console? 

Yes.  That also confirms that the motherboard has a speaker.

>     beep

That works; as expected the sound comes through the internal speakers.

Must be an X configuration issue.  Will look into that.

-- 
Joe Riel


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