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Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent?


From: Héctor Lahoz
Subject: Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 14:53:35 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 06:42:52AM +0200, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > as in the subject.  I defined
> > 
> > (defun system-beep ()
> >   (call-process "beep"))
> 
> The thread veered off-topic, but since I don't see a solution yet,
> I'll give it a shot. A long shot, but hey...
> 
> Try finding out your X settings: in a terminal, issue
> 
>   xset q
> 

So Emacs doesn't do it itself. It just tells X window: "ring my bell".
That's an old song :-) It makes sense since it is user interaction.

It's one of those unimportant things that is simply there but you
don't pay much attention. Until it stops working.

Now my bell sounds much clearer. Thanks :-)



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