On my system the I get the beep through the speakers. The default beep is enabled in the control panel. The funny thing though, similarly to Harold I get different pitches, I get a high-pitched beep from the cmd.exe that sounds like a pc speaker but is coming from soundcard but from bash I get the sound I defined in the control panel.
There was a thread on this before in cygwin list and more than once. Does not really relate to the XFree but I thought I'd mention it, maybe it is related somehow. There is one with Subject: 'Beeping' from 16/03/2002 on how to turn beeping OFF for readline (echo set bell-style none >>~.inputrc), for vi (:set vb) and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound\Beep registry key which I think would be toggled by the control panel anyway but still would not hurt to check. My rxvt does not beep because I run it with -vb option (no visual bell). There is same option for xterm. Could this be somehow related to the problem? I cannot check because my xfree is older than the packaged ones and does not beep at all. Eugene. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Gallew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: Trivial Feature Request: beep() > Is it possible to make the X11 bell work? "xset q" tells me the bell > should be ringing, but I can't seem to get it to work. >
