On 31/01/14 16:40, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a > adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny > bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the > computer issue a beep as it should according to the man page. What > special knowledge is needed? Why don't I get a beep with: > > echo -e \a > > TIA > Do you have a PC speaker? Kind regards