I want my Wheezy desktop (windowing with xfce) to issue a beep after a adjustable amount of time. I expected that I could do this with a tiny bash script using sleep and echo, but I cannot get echo to make the computer issue a beep as it should according to the man page. What special knowledge is needed? Why don't I get a beep with:
echo -e \a TIA -- Paul E Condon [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
