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


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: Is it only me or is your ding also silent?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 07:58:35 +0200
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.19; emacs 26.0.50

On 2017-07-22, at 11:17, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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> 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
>
> That's what happens on my box:
>
>  | tomas@rasputin:~$ xset q
>  | Keyboard Control:
>  |   auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
>  |   XKB indicators:
>  [...]
>  |   bell percent:  0    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
>  [...]
>
> (some output elided)
>
> If you have "bell percent" set to 0, you might try
>
>   xset b
>
> or something similar. That wouldn't explain that "beep" actually
> (uh) beeps (did I say that it was a long shot?), but worth trying.

Hi Tomás,

I'm *so* much impressed - you nailed it!  Now my Emacs is wonderfully
talkative, erm, beepative;-).  Thanks!!!

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski



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