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Even in that case, you'd have to run the terminal as root. Running echo as root won't do anything. X11 also has beep functionality built in, which is what I'd e
by FreeFull 9y ago
Even in that case, you'd have to run the terminal as root. Running echo as root won't do anything. X11 also has beep functionality built in, which is what I'd expect xterm to use.
- laumars 9y ago> Even in that case, you'd have to run the terminal as root. Running echo as root won't do anything. To be honest that was my assumption as well but I didn't test that theory so was only reporting on the rationale of the GPs post > X11 also has beep functionality built in, which is what I'd expect xterm to use X11 runs as root though (that said Xorg may not anymore now as there were talks about patching Linux so it didn't have to be) so Xorg could easily still use the standard ioctl bell (that's possibly all Xorg is doing behind the scenes in fact?) But as I said earlier, some GUI terminal emulators avoid ioctl entirely and play a WAV tone instead.