On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:12:10AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i'm feeling a bit dense right now, but all i want to do is > echo/print/printf/whatever a BEL character to get a beep. i've checked > all the standard ways, using '\a' and \007 and so on, but no alleged > variation gives me a beep. sound is turned on, so i'm puzzled. > > this is on fedora 20, is there a shell setting of some kind that i > need to tweak? echo -e '\a' works here through the PC speaker on the console or in an xterm. In X I can turn the bell off with "xset -b", so maybe try "xset b". "xset" with no options shows the usage. Regards, Howard E.