On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:22:03 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:38:35 -0800, Joe Riel wrote:
> 
> > Is there some trick to enabling the bell in an xterm?
> > 
> > $ xset q | grep bell
> >   bell percent:  100    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
> > 
> > But echoing ^G,
> > 
> > $ echo <Ctrl>-v <Ctrl>-g
> > 
> > makes no beep.
> 
> "echo ctrl+v" neither sounds here but "ctrl+g" and "echo -e "\a"" do
> make speaker to beep. 

> Does it work under another terminal (i.e., aterm, gnome-terminal, 
> konsole...) inside an X session?

No.  So far, I've only got it work from a virtual terminal (console).
 
> Another test to make "ring the bell" is searching for nonexistent
> string in Iceweasel (ctrl+f).

Emacs should ring the bell when I do something illegal.
That's how I noticed it was silent.
-- 
Joe Riel


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