hey all -
here's my question:
I use IceWm which i love. You can write shell scripts and initiate
them via icons on the menu or toolbar... i wrote one to mount and
unmount my CD-Rom. Part of this script is to echo a system bell when
the Drive is fully mounted/unmounted or a longer bell if the device is
busy etc... It works great when executed from a terminal window or
xterm in X. But when i execute it via the menu/toolbar icon it won't
sound the system bell ( i assume it has something to do with echo ) ...
so far the way i have found around this is to tell the icon to open an
xterm window
#----cut from $HOME/.icewm/menu
#the first word "prog" means program ; CD is the title displayed ;
#mounter is the name internal to Icewm and the rest is what is executed
prog CD mounter xterm +ls -geom 5x3-0+0 -T '' -bg red -fg red -e
/home/slamson/bin/mounter
#prog CD mounter mounter
#----end of cut
the uncommented one opens the xterm and it functions fine - opening a
"small" xterm and echoing a bell... the commented one works great too,
but no system bell.
How can i get the system bell to sound - you'll note i also use xset b
to set duration etc at the bottom of the script - without opening a
window to run this simple script?
TIA - Shawn (script "mounter" follows)
#!/bin/sh
#shell program to mount / unmount cdrom drive
#shawn lamson 06/24/2002
set -x #uncomment for testing
DEVICE=/dev/scd0
MOUNT_PT=/cdrom
STATUS=ON
ERROR=' ERROR: mount or remount manually'
#
# this program could grep the fields of /etc/fstab to find
devices but doesnt
# it assumes /cdrom as mount point and my current device
/dev/scd0
#
if ! grep "$MOUNT_PT" /etc/fstab
then
echo -e "Device $DEVICE is not set to mount in /etc/fstab\a"
echo $ERROR
exit 1
fi
if grep "$DEVICE" /etc/mtab
then
STATUS=ON
else
STATUS=OFF
fi
if [ $STATUS = ON ]
then
umount "$DEVICE" && cdcd open && echo -e "\a" && exit 0
#
# this will fail if device is busy
# should drop down to echo bell
#
elif [ $STATUS = OFF ]
then
cdcd close
mount /cdrom
echo -e "\a" #indicate CD is ready
exit 0
else
echo $ERROR
echo "You may want to examine the output of #cat /etc/fstab"
echo "and #cat /etc/mtab for clues"
exit 1
fi
#
#this bell will execute if all else fails - for example device $DEVICE
is busy
#
echo "is device:$DEVICE busy?"
xset b 100 700 1000 #set bell vol pitch duration
echo -e "\a"
xset b #sets bell back to defaults
set +x #uncomment for testing
=====
Shawn Lamson
Debian/GNU Linux Woody
Kernel 2.2.19pre17
XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System
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