From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Wahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: beep makes no sound on xfce Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 18:48:16 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <84twqzh9db.fsf@gmail.com> References: <20150909212527.24ebb8af@gauss> <87egi4xaar.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442076618 31099 80.91.229.3 (12 Sep 2015 16:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 16:50:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 18:50:18 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 1Zao0H-0005nC-UF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 18:50:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33167 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zao0H-0003MG-6r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2015 12:50:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: DxUcNU9xQ9HEGUmLcQ60Yw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAACBj SFJNAAB6JgAAgIQAAPoAAACA6AAAdTAAAOpgAAA6mAAAF3CculE8AAAAD1BMVEX9/P3zn/zqYfve CPz///+XZmJwAAAAAWJLR0QEj2jZUQAAAAlwSFlzAAALEgAACxIB0t1+/AAAAAd0SU1FB94JCBca NKS0JvoAAAD9SURBVDjLnZRbssMgCIYFN2B0A2nYQCv731tFk+KFTHsOD52Ub+Dnljj3D4PoIJiA d36ZIcT8tPxb4mymYuLdzMR8A7YzIvJMsALPS23IoWU8QVBQu2HOVVJTJonwJ4AuY9VAA4A84qVB KuYoN8erVa3AiwhQLc5BNyHkh3jOv76bXMkVD2plAnV9EotkHX4ZULcDERQrLclvv0S1o98Nqnsb dpY+/nXrzcIdMLZrA/ozSN8inpMfvmWa/bKio0x9aQ/lCgLEBaR2ojCfMLRDK7UNRcV8XEeRhtsl Ld8P4DrZJSIpoOwGEQVTvbh/gP1aQyf3G8DbiHDzTRntDTmSOFjmLqzUAAAAGXRFWHRjb21tZW50 AENyZWF0ZWQgd2l0aCBHSU1Q569AywAAACV0RVh0ZGF0ZTpjcmVhdGUAMjAxNC0wOS0wOFQyMzoy Njo1MiswMjowMPcoeH4AAAAldEVYdGRhdGU6bW9kaWZ5ADIwMTQtMDktMDhUMjM6MjY6NTIrMDI6 MDCGdcDCAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC X-Face: &"bk.O^qRpF*sK+/, &mRxu!P61bKc5"jprbZ_Rax6=! I`CX6#kmDJ~k3QZ, 69ZJor.hJCO)QXAv?&~]EP.<'HHmggrk?>ptlgr:`@WB+YuWwL=^Hl7iYYD"J) "/wg9Ps9}&2Dy^/:1V~vvHS+hK0}6P{*i`"Zyx8 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:107180 Archived-At: Joe Riel writes: > 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. I have the command 'beep' on my linux system. The command 'amixer' allows to control the beep. amixer get Beep amixer set Beep on amixer set Beep off HTH -- GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2