Re: beeps and other sounds

On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 14:20 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 13:58:56 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > When logged in as root, the following worked for me using a local user account (e.g. not the root user): > > > > # runuser --user notroot -- bash -lic 'aplay /usr/share/sounds/

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 13:58:56 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > When logged in as root, the following worked for me using a local user > account (e.g. not the root user): > > # runuser --user notroot -- bash -lic 'aplay > /usr/share/sounds/purple/alert.wav' Huh, interesting. That --user option

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 13:54 George at Clug wrote: > > > On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 13:36 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > > > so

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 13:36 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > > > Hello everyone. > > > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > > sound after completing a shell script. > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Instea

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > sound after completing a shell script. > Thanks in advance. > Instead of a plain beep you can play an mp3 instead. sudo apt install alsaplayer-text als

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Saturday, 19-10-2024 at 13:08 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > > > Hello everyone. > > > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > > sound after completing a shell script. > > Thanks in advance. > > > I googled

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > sound after completing a shell script. > Thanks in advance. > I googled around and found: - tput bel: This command uses the tput utility to send the

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > >> Hello everyone. >> >> Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep >> sound after completing a shell script. >> Tha

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM Arbol One wrote: > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep > sound after completing a shell script. > Thanks in advance. > I would also like to know how to do that. If you figure it out please post it to the list.

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Sat, Oct 19, 2024 at 4:03 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The more-portable version of this is printf '\a'. > > The issue, though, is that what the terminal *does* with this \007 > byte depends on a truly formidable number of different settings and > layers. The terminal may cause the system to be

Re: Battery CMOS

On 10/16/24 21:59, William Torrez Corea wrote: What happened with my CMOS battery? I buy a new CMOS battery, replace the old battery and configure the date/hour through the BIOS, save the configuration and restart the machine. Start the operating system, the system loads but then restart and th

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 15:05:31 -0700, Larry Martell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM Arbol One wrote: > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound > > after completing a shell script. > > Way back in the day I used to do th

Re: beeps and other sounds

On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM Arbol One wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound > after completing a shell script. Way back in the day I used to do this: echo '^G'

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM FJD wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable and used a different one. Streaky blurry darker screen. Try booting with Live CD and s

Re: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

On 10/15/24 07:35, Anssi Saari wrote: Chris Green writes: No need for that (testing for me), I can try and if it all goes pear shaped I'll just have to go out to the system in the garage with a screen and keyboard (and mouse). If the backup system is down for a while it wouldn't be a disaster

Re: beeps and other sounds

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/beep ``` ./my_thing.sh && beep ``` is the first-level thing to do... Cheers! On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 2:55 PM Arbol One wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound > after completing a shell scr

beeps and other sounds

Hello everyone. Could anyone tell me how to make Debian 12-gnome-terminal make a beep sound after completing a shell script. Thanks in advance. -- */ArbolOne ™/* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of students and volunteers dedicated to providing free services to charitable

Re: Male my own gui

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:16:33 + mathew butterfield wrote: > Hi there I am looking for some help I would like to make my own > server gui/desktop environment/shell I am not sure if I am using the > right terms I mean the graphics for the operating system. > We need to know what level you wish

Re: Male my own gui

In Debian, there are a few different GUI layers: Bottom up(simplified): * Xorg/Wayland * Desktop environment * Window manager * Gtk/qt * Applications What layer would you like to make your own? On October 18, 2024 7:16:33 AM CDT, mathew butterfield wrote: >Hi there I am looking for

Male my own gui

Hi there I am looking for some help I would like to make my own server gui/desktop environment/shell I am not sure if I am using the right terms I mean the graphics for the operating system. Thank you Mathew Sent from Outlook for Android

Re: Streaks on screen. maybe OT

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM FJD wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, FJD wrote: > > > I've switched the cable a couple of times. I just switched out the cable > and > > used a different one. > > > > Streaky blurry darker screen. > Try booting with Live CD and see if the problem still exists. If the