On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 10:34:44PM -0500, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > > > 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. > > Check that. It's actually the internal mono speaker from the > onboard sound. I can adjust the volume with the mixer. There > is no PC speaker. Otherwise, no difference. Scratch that too. :-) The mixer does NOT affect the volume of the bell. "xset b vol" does. Regards, Howard E.