Re: Rolling My Own

[Jacob Schmude <jacobs@ncinter.net>]

Hi
     OK I don't know about the pine thing, but here's how I replaced the
bell tone (not recompiling):
     Find your local setup script. Don't know what it is in caldera,
slackware's is /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Put the line:
setterm -bfreq $FREQUENCY
$FREQUENCY is, of course, the frequency you'd want. The default is
somewhere around 750. When I put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local in slackware,
it took effect for all consoles.

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hello All -- and Happy New Year to all:
>
> Like many of you, I've become comfortable with compiling applications and
> rolling out linux kernels with Speakup compiled in. Well, OK, I've become
> somewhat comfortable with the basics. In other words, I'm ready to take
> the next tentative step. For me, this means tweaking some of my pet peaves
> with my computer into behaving like I want them to behave, rather than
> living with the defaults.
>
> I have two tweaks that I want to put into effect:
>
> 1.)	The system bell stinks, imho. I hate that 1 kHz (or whatever) tone
> that one gets with Ctrl-G, ASCII char 7, or %BELL, or whatever the heck
> it's called in one programming environment or other. I want something
> else. The something else I want I can already effect in a simple shell
> script. Where and how do I make this the default? I presume this is
> somewhere in the kernel code as a call of some sort that I would
> substitute my own call with. Gak, what terrible grammar, but I suspect
> you'll get the idea;
>
> 2.)	I intend to keep using Pine. Because I have Caldera on my portable
> system, I have to compile from sources if I want to upgrade to the latest
> and greatest. This gives me the opportunity to tweak, hopefully, how the
> Pine index is displayed. In other words, I want to change the order of
> summary info Pine will display when a folder's index is on screen;
>
> Any advice on the above would be greatly appreciated.
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