[Linux-users] System Bell/Notification

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007, C M Reinehr wrote:
>I'm having what, at first appearance, is a simple problem, but one that 
>doesn't seem to have a simple answer--at least not one that I've been able to 
>find and simple answers are my specialty. ;-)
>
>Last week I completed a completely new installation of Debian Etch (stable) on 
>a desktop PC. A critical application is rxvt, a terminal emulation program, 
>which allows the user to connect to our accounting system which is written to 
>use simple, dumb terminals for I/O. An important feature is the use of the 
>system bell to notify the user of important events (of an accounting nature).
>
>Well, everything on this new PC works, except the system bell. We use KDE and 
>get all of the usual sounds when logged into a user session. KDE has a system 
>of notifications which causes different sounds to be played to notify the 
>user of different events and they work. All the other usual suspects work, 
>mplayer, flash plugin, etc. Just not the system bell notification.
>
...
>So, anybody got a clue? If not, my next resort will just be to carefully 
>reinstall the whole damned system.

What happens if you send a ctrl-g character to the terminal?
This is the BEL ascii character which should generate a beep.

Most of the times I've had problems hearing beeps on my desktop
system it's been because I have all sound going through the
speakers and had the volume turned way down.

Bill
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