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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 18:25 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:28:07PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 	Um, exactly where do I click?  If you mean the Prefs or Admin
> 	menues, I have found "Sound"  and did enable the system beep.
> 	Nothing happpens.  On the first tab, I can play all the clicks
> 	and bongs, and other wav files, but that's all.  Same on both 
> 	FreeBSD and Ubuntu.  nada.

Those settings work for me.  I've never had a problem with the system
beep.

Joe

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