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Dont have a (working) soundcard but need a few signals, like a beep when a message arrives in your [[jabber]] client , a highlight in your [[irc]] client or when [[email]] arrives? |
Dont have a (working) [[soundcard]] but need a few signals, like a beep when a message arrives in your [[jabber]] client , a highlight in your [[irc]] client or when [[email]] arrives? |
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In [[Debian]], get ''apt-get install beep''. In other [[Linux]] distributions or other [[:Category:Operating Systems|OSes]], install [http://www.frank-buss.de/beep/ beep] manually. |
In [[Debian]], get ''apt-get install beep''. In other [[Linux]] distributions or other [[:Category:Operating Systems|OSes]], install [http://www.frank-buss.de/beep/ beep] manually. |
Revision as of 11:55, 6 March 2005
Dont have a (working) soundcard but need a few signals, like a beep when a message arrives in your jabber client , a highlight in your irc client or when email arrives?
In Debian, get apt-get install beep. In other Linux distributions or other OSes, install beep manually.
Then you can make a shell script, for example in bash, create a new text file beep.sh with any text editor like vi or joe.
#/bin/bash beep -f 523 -l 300 beep -f 10000 -l 500 beep -f 880 -l 1000 ...
-f is the frequency of the tone in Hertz -l is the duration of the tone in millisecond
check out details on man beep.
Play with the options, you could even compose your own music with this ;)
When finished you make the beep.sh executable through:
chmod +x beep.sh
and finally you can enter something like
/home/yourname/beep.sh
as the player command in the settings of your Psi jabber client or according application that allows setting a custom player command on incoming events.