[arch-general] Trouble with "system" bell

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Tue Aug 7 04:58:14 EDT 2012


On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 18:15 -0700, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> I'm on a macbook, so there's no true system bell - I've installed xbelld to 
> replace it. Unfortunately, I still get no bell in terminal (rxvt or xterm or 
> st, using "echo -e \\a" or ^G or ^H^H^H), although running 'xkbbell' does give 
> me the bell.
> 
> Searching online, I find this: 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=883917#p883917 which seems similar 
> (I tried chromium, and I do indeed get a bell there), but the solution of 
> "just use the system bell" won't work for me. The visualBell effect works, but 
> that's not what I'm looking for.
> 
> Any tips on what's keeping the bell from being played from terminal? I've 
> tried "xset b" stuff, and I'm out of ideas.

Kernel module pcspkr? Or is this irrelevant regarding to "there's no
true system bell"?



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