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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
