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djg1971

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 185

how to make urxvt play audible bell like gnome-terminal?

My system is a 64-bit arch laptop with openbox as the wm and urxvt as my primary terminal (w/bash as primary shell).

If I launch a gnome-terminal, then applications which run in-shell (eg. pine) play a beep under certain conditions, such as when a new message comes in.  Most people seem to hate the audible bell, but it is handy in this case.

Through urxvt I cannot get any system-beep type sounds to play under any circumstances.  This used to work by default maybe 6 months ago and then spontaneously quit working; from time to time I have a few minutes to return to the problem.

Any ideas how to enable the audible bell within urxvt, or kluge something if it can't be enabled anymore?  -I don't care what sound is played, just want to get SOME sound to play as an alert when I'm busy.

pwd

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Registered: 2009-12-14

Posts: 13

Re: how to make urxvt play audible bell like gnome-terminal?

Free desktop bugzilla: keyboard bell stopped working with xorg-server 1.7.0 Bug#: 24503

And this thread.