I like this idea, but it needs some debugging on my end. Firstly, I did make sure to get all that code on one line in my .bashrc. However, I get this error: play WARN alsa: can't encode 0-bit Unknown or not applicable Tim Chase writes: > Stumbled on this one today thanks to @climagic on Twitter. If you > want to have your machine give you one tone if the previous command > succeeded (had an exit-status of 0) and a different tone if the > previous command failed (had a non-zero exit status), you can put the > following one-liner in your .bashrc file: > > PROMPT_COMMAND='[ "$?" == 0 ] && play -qn synth sin F3 trim 0 0 0.1 > fade 0 0.1 0.05 vol 0.2 || play -qn synth square F4 trim 0 0.1 fade 0 > 0.1 0.05' > > This uses the `play` command from the `sox` package. There are a > number of tweaks you can make to change the tones, timbres, > wave-form, volume, duration, etc. The above uses an F3 sine-wave at > 20% volume for success and an F4 square-wave at 100% volume for > failure. > > To test it out, use the `true` and `false` commands (they don't do > anything other than exit with a particular zero/non-zero exit code). > > But here's hoping someone here finds it useful. > > -tim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list