Re: Trivial Feature Request: beep()

["Brian Gallew" <geek at burri dot to>]

Harold L Hunt said:
> Okay.  Do you have a sound-card or just a pc speaker on the machine
> that you use Cygwin/XFree86 on?

Sound card (well, Crystal Audio built-in, it's a laptop).

> If you've got a sound card and you have your Windows sounds
> configured so that no sound is played for the Default Beep, then
> you certainly won't here anything.  Go into the Control
> Panel->Sounds and check that you have a sound configured.  Click
> the play button and make sure that you hear the sound when it is
> played.  Then run Cygwin/XFree86 and confirm that you do not hear
> the sound.

Definitely.  The "Default Beep" is set and plays correctly.  But
there's no sound within XFree.
> I just did a test on a machine running Windows NT 4.0 without a
> sound card.  "echo -c \\a" caused a pc speaker beep from both a
> Cygwin bash shell and from an xterm under Cygwin/XFree86.  The two
> beeps were of a different pitch though... weird.

If I start up bash.exe using the WinXP explorer, I can get it to beep.
 If I start up an rxvt instead, no beep.  Inside XFree, no beep.  I
find no reference to beep in any of my app-defaults file (or the
system ones, for that matter).  xrdb -query reveals nothing useful,
either.  Frankly, I'm baffled.