On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:49:16PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 09:52:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Edwin Goei wrote: >> >>Is there a program that will beep or make a sound in cygwin? In bash, >> >>I've tried "echo -e \\a" and I get a control-G char but no sound. Is >> >>there a program that will play a sound file that comes w/ cygwin? I >> >>run xemacs which does produce sounds but I'm looking for a simpler way. >> > >> >The ^G character will work in an xterm or rxvt running under X11. >> > >> >It also used to work in the Cygwin console, but apparently doesn't >> >anymore... >> >> echo "^G" >> >> where ^G is the literal "control g" character works fine for me. ^G >> uses the Windows MessageBeep call so if that isn't working then there >> are undoubtedly other things wrong with your system. Either that or you >> have sound muted. > >MessageBeep in general does not work on my system (even from a non-Cygwin >program). There used to be a "DefaultBeep" event in Windows that had a >sound associated with it -- that was the sound that MessageBeep used. >I don't know why there is no such event now, but there isn't.
The missing DefaultBeep is a generic problem in need of fixing. As I'm sure you know, you do this via the control panel. In XP it is the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties selection. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/