can not get tty to beep in 16.04 , even echo bel failed lol ( \a )

[Mike Marchywka]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:39:16PM -0000, Jonesy via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 11:26:06 +0000, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> > I've got a script that can fail but I often gloss over the error 
> > message. I also have a script to highlight text in various ways so for 
> > now I decided to just pipe the error message into the highlighter but 
> > I wanted an audible alert.
> 
> Look into calling `zenity` or `kdialog` to pop up an error message 
> that you cannot "gloss over".  :-)   Bog simple.
> 
>  . . . unless you're speaking of a server (non-desktop) environment.

I did not want a dialog although I have started to ssh -Y for viewing
images created on a remote machine. Normally the output is just one
line or two, I guess I could dump larger sections of the file
that provoked the error as that would be hard to miss. I'd
like it to run on a VT100 :)
I guess I could just invoke vi with that file as that would
be obvious...
At the point this script runs, I've usually forked off to
editing in another tty and just ignore the output. If it popped
up vi that would prevent me from overwriting it easily
and that is when it make things harder.




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