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Re: making my Wheezy beep. How?



On Thu, 1/30/14, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:

 Subject: making my Wheezy beep. How?
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 11:40 PM
 
 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
 
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Are you sure the PC speaker isn't muted?  I always turn mine off.  I think it's in the alsa settings nut it's been a long time so can't remember the details.  Wouldn't huirt to check.


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