Terminal Audible Beep Sound

Horizon_Brave · 2017-06-19 17:05:05

Hey everyone, so I was really sure if this should be put in the Multimedia forms..but I'll keep it here for now.

So I've been playing around with the irssi terminal irc chat client. And it gives and option to have an audible 'beep' play when you're name is mentioned in chat or someone pings you. In setting it up, no dice though. And this isn't the first time I've noticed that I garner no audio output from the terminal. Even when doing

echo -e "\a"

the signal to alert the terminal to play a sound, never worked for me. This is the case for both Terminator, and Guake. What I did notice however though, is that if I select "Screen Flash" instead of "Audible Beep", the terminal software can process the echo -e "\a" command and indeed flashes the screen. But I'd like it to do what it promises, and beep the damn bell!

Is this something commonly known? Do any terminals properly process and make use of the alert bell?

I can only assume this is why the irssi chat client can't beep me either since it probably relies on the terminal to play the audible beep?

Last edited by Horizon_Brave (2017-06-19 17:16:49)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-06-19 18:26:06

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … eaker-beep

brontosaurusrex · 2017-06-19 18:27:59

xset b on

does anything?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-06-19 18:38:45

This works for me in rxvt-unicode (but not st):

tput bel

In my GNOME desktop this produces the system notification sound, which is nice.

EDIT: that doesn't work in GNOME's native terminal though (ha!)...

EDIT2: both `echo -e "\a"` & `tput bel` work in st, I just had the bell volume set to zero

EDIT3: the GNOME terminal also has a bell option that was disabled

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-06-19 18:55:27)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-06-19 18:52:00

All my stuff was in Arch, for Debian try this thread (from a #! user, appropriately):

https://superuser.com/questions/692050/ … minal-bell

EDIT: terminal bells are annoying, why would anyone want this?

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-06-19 19:15:02)

Horizon_Brave · 2017-06-19 19:31:34

brontosaurusrex wrote:

xset b on
does anything?

Oh yea I forgot to mention, I did try this as well. Unfortunately no dice... It just triggers a screen flash, not a beepy.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

All my stuff was in Arch, for Debian try this thread (from a #! user, appropriately):
https://superuser.com/questions/692050/ … minal-bell
EDIT: terminal bells are annoying, why would anyone want this?

Agreed, they may be annoying, but for when I'm in a chat, and someone is pm's me or messages me, it's good to hear the buzz, sometimes I don't have my eyes on that monitor to see the flash.

Thanks for the link HoaS, not sure if I'm following it though, seems like a lot of grasping at different straws... Had no clue there was this much discord over a beep! It seems like it's disabled on multiple "levels" terminal, alsa, application level etc..

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-06-19 19:41:46

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Thanks for the link HoaS, not sure if I'm following it though

The big green tick denotes the correct answer

brontosaurusrex · 2017-06-19 20:27:38

With weechat one can set custom beep event, must be similar in irssi (if not, there should be a perl script)
https://weechat.org/files/doc/weechat_f … tification

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Terminal Audible Beep Sound

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