On Tuesday 01 August 2017 23:52:48 Ralph Katz wrote: > On 08/01/2017 01:21 PM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > > On 01-08-17, RavenLX wrote: > >> On 08/01/2017 11:17 AM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > >>> On 01-08-17, RavenLX wrote: > >>>> Having it work out-of-the-box would be nice. After a fresh > >>>> install, I have a bash script I run that installs all the apps I > >>>> use and configures them. Sometimes though, there are things that > >>>> a user needs to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script > >>>> running and go do something else, I want to "beep" when it's > >>>> going to need attention by the user. I noticed this does not work > >>>> in Stretch so I ended up removing the part to install the "beep" > >>>> package and use beep to alert the user. I have tried escape codes > >>>> via echo -e as well, and no beep there either. > >>> > >>> Does printf "\a" works for you? Though, echo -e "\a" works here > >>> too. > >> > >> I just now tried it in Konsole. Nope, doesn't work. > > > > I do not have Konsole here and did not use it for a long time, but > > in Xterm there are setting for terminal bell, so there are in > > gnome-terminal. Perhaps there are those settings in Konsole too. > > Under preferences, or some such thing. > > I once had this issue in xfce. Check .config/Terminal/terminalrc for > the line: > MiscBell=TRUE > > Regards, > Ralph
Thank you, I've been looking for that since Hector was puppy. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>