The ping manual says that ping -a
will generate audible pings, but when I try this no sound is made.
What am I doing wrong?
The ping manual says that ping -a
will generate audible pings, but when I try this no sound is made.
What am I doing wrong?
From looking at the source, ping produces a bell by printing the ASCII bell char '\a', which is doing nothing, probably because the system beep is disabled.
You can manually try to produce the bell with:
echo -e "\a"
echo
command on CrunchBang Linux (OpenBox) with no compiz.
Dec 7, 2011 at 13:41
compiz
"eats" the sound and this is a reported bug, so it won't work in the graphical interface in standard compiz
ubuntu sessions. (see this bug report, thanks to Dylan McCall comment for the URL).
If you really need the functionality, you could run your ping
from a physical console (Ctrl+Alt+F1). But don't forget:
sudo modprobe pcspkr
As module pcspkr
isn't loaded at boot time and actually drives the old PC speaker you should have in your computer.
You can add it to /etc/modules
if you think you'll need it at a regular basis as this will have the effect to tell the system to load it at boot time.
Note: as it's a compiz
issue, if you are using gnome-fallback
session you shouldn't experience the issue. If this is the case, check your terminal program for options related to console bell.
1 says it's missing a sound file. You can add it with the following command:
pactl upload-sample /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/glass.ogg bell.ogg
For a permanent solution add the command to ~/.xprofile
Because the question is not specified for Unity only, I'll make a little hint about KDEs Konsole. You just should specify a sound for a "Bell in Visible Session" which is under Settings -> Configure Notifications. For example I'm using sounds from /usr/share/sounds/ section. I don't remember is there such an option in Ubuntu's Unity terminal.
In my case I am using KDE in Kubuntu. I had to tick a checkbox:
Notifications
, subtitle is Event Notifications and Actions
Applications
select Konsole
.Configure Events...
Bell in Non-Focused Session
Play a sound
In my case, audible bell was disabled because of xset -b
in my ~/.xsession file and could be re-enabled with xset b
.
If you are using Terminator as terminal on Ubuntu 18.10, left-click the Terminator, select preferences/profiles, and there is the audible beep option.