Kenneth Sloan wrote: > I just upgraded a 17" Macbook Pro from Tiger to Leopard (10.5.7). > > xboard was working perfectly...now it has lost it's bell. > > both the xboard generated sound AND the ICS "Move Sound" fail. > > I suspect this is a generic X11 problem - but I'm hoping someone > here has run into the same thing, and has a fix.
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:24:57 +0200 (MEST), [email protected] wrote: > As XBoard calls an external program (default "play") to do all sounds, I > think it can only mean that your upgrade no longer supports this program. No, I don't think that's the problem here. If the sound name is "$", xboard does putc(BELLCHAR, stderr) to play the sound, where BELLCHAR is '\007' -- that is, the ASCII BEL character, also written \a or Ctrl+G. "$" is the default for soundMove and soundIcsAlarm, so it's probably what Kenneth is using. Also, if you're using the ICS-generated sound instead of the xboard sound, that also works by printing a \007 to the terminal. This \007 is in the output stream from ICS and IIRC xboard just passes it through unchanged; it doesn't even know it's there. So this is an X11 problem. I don't have a Mac, so I can't be of much help. If you use Mac X11 to open an xterm shell window and do "echo ^G", does it make a sound? -- Tim Mann [email protected] http://tim-mann.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
