Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:38:35 -0800, 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.

"echo ctrl+v" neither sounds here but "ctrl+g" and "echo -e "\a"" do make 
speaker to beep. 

Does it work under another terminal (i.e., aterm, gnome-terminal, 
konsole...) inside an X session?

Another test to make "ring the bell" is searching for nonexistent string 
in Iceweasel (ctrl+f).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón