There is another problem. With a tty, it throws error messages. Reason is that it is called as "beep beep -f 440" (so the command name is on there twice).
A workaround is to install a "beep" executable in the path before /usr/bin/beep, which ignores its argument and makes a sound. I wrote a one-line script which plays a sound file (exec aplay sound.wav) and it works well.
Of course, playing the sound from pioneers is a better option.
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Hello Bas,
did you try the version of Pioneers from subversion? Invoking beep similarly as in the other locations of the source didn't help, because beep didn't have access to a tty. Instead I'm using a standard mechanism to use system sounds, which play sound using libcanberra.
Instead of building Pioneers from source, you can also use my ppa for daily builds: https://code.launchpad.net/~rclobus/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
There is another problem. With a tty, it throws error messages. Reason is that it is called as "beep beep -f 440" (so the command name is on there twice).
A workaround is to install a "beep" executable in the path before /usr/bin/beep, which ignores its argument and makes a sound. I wrote a one-line script which plays a sound file (exec aplay sound.wav) and it works well.
Of course, playing the sound from pioneers is a better option.
Hello Bas,
did you try the version of Pioneers from subversion? Invoking beep similarly as in the other locations of the source didn't help, because beep didn't have access to a tty. Instead I'm using a standard mechanism to use system sounds, which play sound using libcanberra.
Instead of building Pioneers from source, you can also use my ppa for daily builds: https://code.launchpad.net/~rclobus/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Pioneers 15.6 was released 2020-08-02