On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 11:50:49AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using licq (from potato). Since I don't have a sound card, I thought > I'd replace the playing of wave files in the OnEvents tab of the options > dialog with the command "echo -e '\a'" so my machine would beep when I get > a new message. The strange thing to me is that this works fine if I start > licq from a shell like Eterm, but doesn't work if I start licq from the > menu. I thought it might be a path problem, so I put the complete path > (/bin/echo) in the command and this didn't make a difference. Anyone > have any ideas why this would happen?
The problem is that "echo -e '\a'" will only beep the console if it's written to stdout or stderr (e.g. when you run it from an eterm). When you start it from the menu, it writes to ~/.xsession-errors instead, so you'll hear no beep. If you download the licq-data tarball from www.licq.org, you'll find 'beep.c'. Compile it, and put it in the event thing to beep the console for you (the command is in the source). You'll need xlib6g-dev (or the equivalent for slink), libc6-dev, and gcc in order to compile it. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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