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

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 11:32:42PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 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.
> 

	Be awful strange to have two computers with the same defect;
	a broken speaker.  ...I  just tried again.  Setting the screen to
	flash flashes the screen whenever the BEL should should.  

	Here (old/present tao, running CTWM), echo "'\007'" sunds the
	bell plus '' to the screen.  On both Gnome desktops, just a flash
	(plus, of course, '' to stdout). 

	If anybody else is following this, any ideas?  What, in /dev,
	controls the system spkr?

	gary

	PS:  I guess I could use the KDE emulation if/iff I can find the
	     right wav. ...

> Joe
> 
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