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I am trying to learn scrot utility and there is an option -z or --silent to prevent beeping. But my system is not beeping at all and so I am unable to test this -z option. I have installed the beep utility in my system.

DK Bose
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user644200
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  • I use Lubuntu, which comes with scrot. It does not beep for me, and I am happy with that. The file is created in the directory from where you start the program. I often use the options -s and -sb to take a screenshot of a window (without and with the header and border). – sudodus Feb 01 '17 at 12:15
  • I too could never get beep to work on Lubuntu. Instead, I chain a sound from /usr/share/sounds. So, for example, I could use scrot && mplayer -really-quiet /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/camera-shutter.oga. But it looks like you don't want the beep so where's the problem? – DK Bose Feb 01 '17 at 14:54
  • No, I want beep, at least for once, I want to test this command option. So, can you tell how will beep work? – user644200 Feb 02 '17 at 09:04

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I'm not familiar with lubuntu per-se, but at least on my version of ubuntu, you need to enable pcspkr module: modprobe pcspkr - you may need to do that with sudo and may want to add it to /etc/modules

then again, i may be completely off the mark for your use case. good luck.

ara_h13
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  • (if you hear a beep when you run beep, then your modules should be fine and you can disregard this answer) – ara_h13 Feb 19 '17 at 13:13
  • Heads up, extra data point: On my system, scrot file.png beeps but beep does not. So beep and scrot may not be doing the same thing. (And I don't care about beep not beeping. I was looking for the -z option to silence the sound from scrot and that works.) – Peter V. Mørch Nov 17 '22 at 17:36