system BEL ('\007') not work under Gnome: why?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 14:01 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 	Guys,
> 
> 	Same thing under Gnome on my Ubuntu platform too.  It was new;
> 	and now with my Dell, again, the beep that I like in vi/vim
> 	doesn't sound.  i can write a C program to putchar('\007');
> 	and the system sound here, altho thru my speakers rather than the
> 	computer itself.
> 
> 	KDE has an emulator but so far I've only gotten to to make a 
> 	strange sound.  This under Ubuntu.  Wrong wav file.  How do I
> 	set up a bell.wav under gnome?  I don't like and can't see the
> 	screen flash when I'm making sure my fingers hit the hright
> 	keys....more/less.

Look at the Sound capplet.  There is a tab there that will allow you to
enable the system beep.

Joe

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