From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QzAGX-0001l7-91 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:37:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B03B21C2BA; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FD521C2AF for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 16:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1316946ewy.40 for ; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:36:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=XKiXH26wGnaZyUZLaoE+P50MA4LQJvgHN8Y6RUmgKjM=; b=ksgpQWB5STrzb0ORJ7o36xitLtJXKehpHGWlOlb23qAYD+3DQ/BoLEwDB83MWOKcJt ZmzBUw6kqNghJ9JcVlIqt6xEhmzWjhDlwgr/VjI3rAwuDqHwadGFmxGndK0btL1KatIz 993glIud7h6mEB7x3mJ/VEG/bjy9j0K7+StM0= Received: by 10.223.28.89 with SMTP id l25mr69774fac.34.1314894972460; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n7sm164021faa.26.2011.09.01.09.36.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:36:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Typewriter sound Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:36:04 +0200 Message-ID: <2007954.4mH7sCYInF@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/3.0.1; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <20100817172005.GA5110@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3fe003cd7671aaa799afcd493618f494 Am Donnerstag 01 September 2011, 00:57:37 schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2011-08-31, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I checked, and I do have the old standard PC-speaker connected to the > >> motherboard, and "xset c" still does nothing. > >> > >>> not playing a custom sound file. > >> > >> Which is what the OP asked for. > > > > Hey, it wasn't my idea. Talk to Volker for more details about the > > xset-as-typewriter-sound idea. :) > > I'm still waiting for him to defend his snide remarks about how we > were all stupid for doing things other than using xset... > > > I didn't reply to the OP. I only replied about xset > > (non-)functionality, where it sounds like we're in agreement that it > > just sounds the system bell (or whatever you call it). > > No, it doesn't do that for me, and I don't ever remember being able to > get it to do so. I just tried on a couple different systems (all of > which have a "pc speaker", and 'xset c' doesn't do anying. > > Does 'xset c' work for you? if xset does not work for you and you are using KDE: there is an option in system-settings. I am sure there is one for gnome in their config tool too. You guys are still re-inventing wheels. -- #163933