2014-01-31 Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>:
> 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
You need a terminal (either Linux console or standard xterm/
gnome-terminal/kde-terminal/eterm/whaterver terminal) to interpret
the "\a" as a beep. Either run your script in a terminal (but that
will probably have visual artifact that are not very nice) or use the
command "beep" as suggested by Scott.
Hope this helps,
Loïc