Post #4413128

2026-08-06 09:46 UTC

Righto :) I was a DOS ‘programmer’ long before I migrated to Linux - the same way some guy who write bat files with environment variables and errorlevel commands might migrate to a shell script.

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@Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-08-06 10:07

I had to do some really wacky stuff but I finally got all manner of beeps and boops from the motherboard speaker last month (aftermarket addon). Stuff like beep on startup, buzz when moving a window, different quick peeps when clicking, doubleclicking or right clicking. I had it for about an afternoon and then my partner raged at all the noise :/ now my computer are silent and boring again

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@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2026-08-06 10:20

I’m pretty sure Konsole has a setting for that

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@balsoft@lemmy.ml 2026-08-06 12:37

I have a slightly more advanced setup which uses post-command hooks to send a desktop notification when a command has been running for over 10 seconds. That notification contains the elapsed time and the exit code too, and plays a different sound depending on whether the command was successful or not. This allows for some neat integrations with KDE connect to let me know when some long compile has finished or something even when I’m away from my computer. You can see how it works here.

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