Hi On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:40:22PM -0700, 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
apt-get install beep ? Description-en: advanced pc-speaker beeper beep does what you'd expect: it beeps. But unlike printf "\a" beep allows you to control pitch, duration, and repetitions. Its job is to live inside shell/perl scripts and allow more granularity than one has otherwise. It is controlled completely through command line options. It's not supposed to be complex, and it isn't - but it makes system monitoring (or whatever else it gets hacked into) much more informative. Sounds like it does what you want. I believe this will use the built-in PC speaker (the same one the BIOS uses to complain about stuff) and not the sound card. In the past I used a package which I cannot find at the moment. I *think* it was called "ditty" but my apt-fu is not working for me today. Had lots of fun getting a whole rack playing "Fur Elise" ... Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140131110750.GA340@hawking
