[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon Jun 9 15:02:07 UTC 2003


On Monday, 9 Jun 2003, Garry Heaton wrote:
>I need to set my crontab to create an audible alert every 20mins. to remind
>me to do a neck & shoulder exercise. Can't find any info on generating a
>system 'beep'. Any ideas?

If you are running X, try the extant xwrits package? It's pretty
useful for this kind of thing.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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