Intercept "bell" signal and send it to a speaker using ALSA

[Sebastien CELLES]

Hello,

The bell (when for example using backspace on a console) on a laptop computer is not active by default.
I think it should (or a least it should be possible to easily set it)
The following utility (xbelld) can do this quite easily
http://code.google.com/p/xbelld

It can manage bell signal for apps running on top of a X server
Adding this package could be usefull

Unfortunately, for other apps (such as virtual console like CTRL+ALT+F1 (... +F6)
it doesn't work !

Best regards

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

I'm using xkbevd for this purpose now.

My .xkb/xkbevd.cf is as follows:

Bell() "!ogg123 -q <some ogg file> &"
Bell(ImAlive) ignore

[Sebastien CELLES (s-cls)]

Thanks, I think a good idea could be to set this by default because it's a better idea to have a sound instead of a bell in a desktop environment.
The problem should also be solved when user change from X to a console only environment.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I can confirm this bug because it happens to several users. Priority should be set to Wishlist. Thank you for reporting this bug!