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?

Kind regards


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