sounding system bell in a shell script run from toolbar icon

hey all - here's my question: I use IceWm which i love. You can write shell scripts and initiate them via icons on the menu or toolbar... i wrote one to mount and unmount my CD-Rom. Part of this script is to echo a system bell when the Drive is fully mounted/unmounted or a longer bell if the

Re: sounding system bell in a shell script run from toolbar icon

--- Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey all - here's my question: ---snip busy etc... It works great when executed from a terminal window or xterm in X. But when i execute it via the menu/toolbar icon it won't sound the system bell ( i assume it has something

Re: sounding system bell in a shell script run from toolbar icon

G'Day, On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: here's my question: xterm in X. But when i execute it via the menu/toolbar icon it won't sound the system bell ( i assume it has something to do with echo ) now i am echoing a CTRL-G to a /tmp/sound$$ file and then catting it - it works!