no beep in vim, gnome-terminal

[jlittle]

Hi >

I've lost my beeps in gvim, gnome-terminal and xterm. /usr/bin/beep sounds the PC speaker, there's a beep in konsole, System settings->notifications->KDE system notifications has a sound (and can play it) for everything. I've tried System settings->notifications->system bell->use system bell both on and off. I've tried xset b on. gnome-sound-properties has a sound for everything, and can play them.

(I'd use konsole but the cursor blink is far too slow.)

Any ideas?

Regards, John

[jlittle]

Re: no beep in vim, gnome-terminal

I've found a workaround. The xkbevd daemon does the job with its configuration file ~/.xkb/xkbevd.cf set to

soundDirectory="/usr/share/sounds/"
soundCmd="aplay -q"

Bell() "KDE_Beep_ShortBeep.wav"

Just need to start xkbevd -bg in my .profile, but only if X is running.

[jlittle]

Re: no beep in vim, gnome-terminal

To update my workaround. (With Jaunty my beeps still don't work, the system bell always sounds regardless of what I put in system settings.) With Jaunty KDE has moved to .ogg files, and my aplay doesn't play them properly, I get a burst of static. Either give aplay a .wav file, ~/.xkb/xkbevd.cf set to

soundDirectory="/usr/share/sounds/"
soundCmd="aplay -q"

Bell() "generic.wav"

or use a command that does, eg canberra-gtk-play, ~/.xkb/xkbevd.cf set to

soundDirectory="/usr/share/sounds/"
soundCmd="canberra-gtk-play -f"

Bell() "KDE-Im-Contact-In.ogg"

As before, I start xkbevd -bg in my .profile, but only if X is running.