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Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie

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On 08/01/2017 01:13 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:17:05 +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote:
> 
>> On 01-08-17, RavenLX wrote:
>>> Having it work out-of-the-box would be nice. After a fresh install, I
>>> have a bash script I run that installs all the apps I use and
>>> configures them. Sometimes though, there are things that a user needs
>>> to answer. Thus, if I want to have the script running and go do
>>> something else, I want to "beep" when it's going to need attention by
>>> the user. I noticed this does not work in Stretch so I ended up
>>> removing the part to install the "beep" package and use beep to alert
>>> the user. I have tried escape codes via echo -e as well, and no beep
>>> there either.
>>>
>>>
>> Does printf "\a" works for you? Though, echo -e "\a" works here too.
> 
> printf "\a" and echo -e "\a" work, as well as all other versions of
> echo like:
> echo -e \\a
> echo -e '\a'
> echo -en '\x07'
> echo -en "\x07"
> 
> However neither of them produces an expecting "beep sound" (do not
> confuse with 'beep' comand/utility). Exsecuting any of the above
> produces default system "Sounds Effects" sound instead.

When I tried it in Konsole (the printf and the echo -e "\a" lines) I got 
no sound. In Xterm I got the default beep that I don't think is from the 
sound subsystem. Sounded very much like a standard terminal beep.

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Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 23:30 +0200
  Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of   Jessie Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-08-01 00:20 +0200
    Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of   Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 00:40 +0200
  Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 15:10 +0200
    Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 17:20 +0200
      Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2017-08-01 17:30 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-08-01 18:00 +0200
          Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 19:20 +0200
            Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-08-01 20:30 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 21:10 +0200
      Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 19:20 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 21:10 +0200
      Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-01 21:00 +0200
        Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-01 21:30 +0200
          Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-08-02 06:00 +0200
            Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of Jessie Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-08-02 06:30 +0200
  Re: Darn 'beep' stoped working after installing Stretch in place of  Jessie davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-08-02 16:40 +0200
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