Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:29:02 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <10721bg$3uf46$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1073tgu$empg$6@dont-email.me> <689722de$0$28075$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <107gib4$3j56j$7@dont-email.me> <107hhhe$3pitk$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net kXpdOzCZpQE5+bG472LOCwEtV1Mw2XCKQqzIm63W8u4X6S7iQR Cancel-Lock: sha1:ycki9IaKxb0rGYPC32G9GK9L/GY= sha256:ezsPof9hvKQ41UgH8fUIOMT8hiZIo8x7p/lXw7qYky8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-CA, es-ANY In-Reply-To: <107hhhe$3pitk$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70907 alt.comp.os.windows-11:22009 On 2025-08-13 10:14, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-08-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:36:40 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >>> Even having a script beep or boop at you is not easy. You can echo a >>> ctrl-G, but that's about it. Doesn't always work, either. Not in a >>> script running in cron, for instance. >> >> If there is a GUI session logged in under the same user, it should be >> possible to detect that from a cron job running under that user, and >> communicate back through the session notification mechanism. > > That is going to be not only more complicated but also specific to a few > graphical environments and configurations. > > This in no way compares to being able to just beep the PC speaker. As I said, not easy. And not universal. One trick is to echo to tty10, but doesn't always work. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R.