[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought > I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options > dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get > a new message. The strange thing to me is that this works fine if I start > licq from a shell like Eterm, but doesn't work if I start licq from the > menu. I thought it might be a path problem, so I put the complete path > (/bin/echo) in the command and this didn't make a difference. Anyone > have any ideas why this would happen?
I guess that echo needs a terminal for its output. To check that you could try something like "echo -e '\a' > /dev/tty12". Hope it helps ... - Konrad
