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jamtat

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Registered: 2008-03-13

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[SOLVED] Replace system bell sound w/ sound generated by beep program?

I'm resurrecting an older laptop with a new Arch install. I've put  the i3 WM on it and have things running fairly well now. Sound is now working fine too.

This machine does not, I think, have a real system bell, but rather one that plays through the speakers. The volume control in alsamixer has no effect on the volume: it's either on, and way too loud, or off (mute in alsamixer). I'm hoping to get something in between, i.e., a quieter sound emitting when the system bell goes off.

I'm familiar with the program beep and have used it on other machines I've set up. I installed it to this laptop as well, and the sound the system makes using the command beep -f 5000 -l 50 -r 2 (as shown in the Arch wiki), is really ideal in terms of pitch and volume; I'd like for that noise to replace the loud beep the system emits by default, but I've so far not figured out how/if that can be done.

Can anyone advise on whether I might be able to get that command to play when the system bell is invoked on this machine and, if so, how this might be accomplished? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

James

Last edited by jamtat (2014-02-14 12:04:11)

jamtat

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Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 229

Re: [SOLVED] Replace system bell sound w/ sound generated by beep program?

I'm discovering xset b, which might also be of help to me (e.g., xset b 30 5000 500). I suppose that sort of modification belongs in .bash_profile or some like location?

Addendum: I ended up putting it in .xinitrc. So I have a tolerable workalike. If no one offers a solution soon for running beep, I'll go ahead an mark this thread solved.

Last edited by jamtat (2014-02-14 12:02:44)