Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?
On 20140131_174326, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> 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?
What is a PC speaker? I have a woofer and two tweeters that produce
sound for video clips from YouTube, but PC speaker must be something
else?
>
> Kind regards
>
>
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