C[omp]ute

From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:13:13 -0400 (CLT)

I wanted to make the PC speaker beep when I got a new AIM message (popups
were driving me crazy and the soundcard feeds to headphones that I am not
always using).

Eventually, I found that adding the following action (as an explicit
command) in the configuration for kopete's notifications worked:

  xterm -iconic -e "echo $'\a'; sleep 1"


I also did the following which may or may not be related:

- sudo modprobe pcspkr

- in the KDE config for notifications, there's a "system bell" section
that I enabled


The following did not seem to have any effect:

- the "beep" command (is this a bash builtin?)

- konsole settings (despite what various people suggested via googling).

- xset b on (although perhaps it enabled beeping in the xterm)


Andrew