Re: Cannot turn on bell in xterm

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:30:28 -0800, Joe Riel wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:24:54 -0800 Joe Riel wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:06:34 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote:

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>> > Can you upload a snapshot (www.picpaste.com) of what you see in
>> > there?

You forgot the image :-P

>> I don't have a gnome-sound-properties executable.  Also,
>> 
>>  $ apt-file find gnome-sound-properties
>> gnome-colors-common: /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/16x16/apps/gnome-sound-properties.png
>> gnome-colors-common: /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/22x22/apps/gnome-sound-properties.png
>> gnome-colors-common: /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/24x24/apps/gnome-sound-properties.png
>> gnome-colors-common: /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/32x32/apps/gnome-sound-properties.png
>> gnome-colors-common: /usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/scalable/apps/gnome-sound-properties.svg
>> xiphos-data: /usr/share/xiphos/gnome-sound-properties.png
>> 
>> No executables in there

That probably means you don't have the full GNOME installed and I 
guess that was your choice.

> I have squeeze testing.  I see that it exists in gnome-control-center,
> in unstable.

The package is also available for lenny and squeeze, is part of the GNOME
desktop, but you said you were not using a DE at all but "fvwm", and also
said that the bell was working at tty so look into fvwm sound settings or
try to load a LiveCD with a full GNOME and check if it working from there.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón