Re: gdm and bell

[Wandered Inn <esoteric denali atlnet com>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know how to ring the computer bell from a script launched in
> logout? The play command works, but I need old speaker in this case.

tput bel

or possibly

echo ^G (control-g)

> 
> I know that I have to put scripts in PostSession dir so gdm runs it when
> user logs out, but it seems that traditional "echo -en \a" does no work (I
> suppose that X VT does not provide bell per se). I have to test via xterm,
> but I would like a cleaner solution if possible.
> 
> If via xterm, how do I enable the audio bell without enabling root's audio
> bells (in manual says that scripts run as root, so it will use root's X
> settings, no?).
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> GSR
> 
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