Bell not working iin bash

[Ken E Unix]

Hi.

I have not been able to get the bell to work in bash. Audio does work with vlc.

I have tried: echo -e "\007" but -e is not allowed.

I have tried both: printf "\007" and printf "\a".

Has anyone made the bell work in bash?

Thanks
-Ken

[ericbsd]

You will need to go to the Sound Preferences and set the Sound theme to default.

[Ken E Unix]

Ericbsd,

Sorry, I can not find the item you referenced me to. Where would "Sound Preferences" appear? Under what menu?

-Ken

[sjsepan2]

Ken,
FYI

I did not find Sound in the Preferences menu either, but assuming it was there somewhere, I looked under All instead, and there was a Sound item there. From there the directions worked for me.

ghostbsd-version = 23.08.30

Steve

[ericbsd]

My bad I just looked back and it is under Sound & Video.

[Ken E Unix]

I have neither of those. I am on 23.08.30. See attachment.

[sjsepan2]

Interesting. I do have Sound & Video, and it is in there too.
I'm running the Mate desktop environment. Please excuse the windowy Chicago theme (assuming the attachment works, which after 5 tries so far it doesn't seem to like it).

[ericbsd]

I have neither of those. I am on 23.08.30. See attachment.

You are running XFCE. In that case, noting I have might apply.

When XFCE is not mentioned, I assume that it is MATE.

[sjsepan2]

I have neither of those. I am on 23.08.30. See attachment.

Ken, Does your XFCE menu come back with any utils when you search for 'sound'? (I'm not familiar with the XFCE desktop and the utils installed, so I can't suggest.)
Steve

[sjsepan2]

Ken,
This discussion...

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5877

...suggests that there may not be as much in the way of sound utils in XFCE, but that right-clicking on the Volume control in the tray (it it is present?) may give you access to some more settings.
Steve
PS -- its an Arch linux forum discussing XFCE, so I don't know if it will help you or not.