From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Riel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beep makes no sound on xfce Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 08:18:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20150912081851.5514fc7e@gauss> References: <20150909212527.24ebb8af@gauss> <87egi4xaar.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442071157 12858 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2015 15:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 17:19:08 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zama4-0007IG-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 17:19:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32820 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zama2-0003le-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53906) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZamZs-0003lY-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZamZp-0008JG-Cs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:18:56 -0400 Original-Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.232]:21160 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZamZp-0008J8-8q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:18:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [75.80.189.125] ([75.80.189.125:42393] helo=gauss) by cdptpa-oedge02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id AB/CA-28614-B5244F55; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 15:18:52 +0000 In-Reply-To: <87egi4xaar.fsf@web.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 107.14.166.232 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107178 Archived-At: On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:21:32 +0200 Michael Heerdegen wrote: > Joe Riel writes: > > > Recently the Emacs beep command quit working; it no longer produces a > > beep. Any idea how I can figure out how to restore it? I believe > > this happened once before, a few years ago. > > Have you configured `ring-bell-function' or `visible-bell'? What about > emacs -Q? I wasn't aware of ring-bell-function. I've never set it before, it is currently nil. I get the same effect with emacs -Q. Any idea what mechanism emacs uses to generate a beep on linux? I'm thinking the problem lies there, rather than in emacs. -- Joe Riel