Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:02:58 +0100 | From | Toon van der Pas <> | Subject | Re: howto get a melodic system beep? |
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On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:25:49PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Is there a way to replace the system beep by something more > melodic? > > I remember some 10 years ago there was a patch for the kernel > to call an external "beep daemon" playing an audio file instead > (no kidding). But it never worked very well. Sometimes there > was a huge delay, and some programs were not very nice to the > system beep.
Hi, check out the URL below. I use this thing on a pc that doesn't have a pc speaker:
http://carcosa.net/jason/software/beep/
Here is a description on how to use this:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Virtual_PC_Speaker
Regards, Toon. -- "I never set out to be weird, it was always other people who called me weird." -- 1986 Frank Zappa
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