Changing the volume of the sounds in bash

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Darragh:

At last. Someone else who thinks the default pitch of the Ctrl-G beep is
too shrill! I've been tweaking mine for years, to some degree of scorn
from some--but I diagress.

setterm is your friend on this point. I use the following via my
.bashrc:

setterm -bfreq 55

This gives me an A you could tune to.

Darragh writes:
> Is it possible to change the volume of the sounds heard while using the Bash prompt? When I for example hit the back space at the start of a line I hear a very loud beep. This beep is great but In an office environment I'd like it to be a bit lower. 
> 
> Oh by the way, I got speakup working during the weekend. I have some more tweeking to do before I'll say I have it working for definit but its looking good. I have a few things disabled in the kernel at the moment and I'm going to re-enable them one by one to see what if any is causing the problem.
> 
> Darragh
> 
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