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Questions tagged [bell]

Questions regarding audible or visual alerts made by a terminal when user attention is required.

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How to ring the system bell from command line?

I'm using some Bash scripts under Linux that require some time to complete; I'd like to add at the end of them a command to ring the system bell when those tasks are done, so I can be notified. What's the proper command to do that? (please note that…
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How do I disable the beep/bell sound in iTerm2 in macbook?

The shell in macbook makes annoying beep/bell/boop sounds. For the OEM terminal, this answer works on disabling this annoying sounds: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19166539/i-want-to-disable-beep-sound-in-terminal-mac-osx However, I could not…
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setting visual bell to flash in iTerm

I am using iTerm on OSX (leopard) to ssh to a linux machine. I run screen on the dev machine to save my work between sessions. I am not a big fan of audio bell and I don't like screen's default 'Wuff Wuff' bell (or any other little message shown at…
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What triggers notifications of the form "Bell in session Shell" in KDE?

I'm running KDE on Debian Testing. From time to time, programs running in a terminal (Konsole) trigger system notifications of the form "Bell in session Shell". What triggers these notifications? Note: I'm not asking how to disable them - I know…
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How to disable the bell in urxvt?

I'm using urxvt on Fedora 30, and when I press ^G, or when I do some other actions, the terminal beeps. How can I disable the beep? I skimmed through the manpage and found that you can start urxvt with urxvt -vb and there will be no bell sound; but…
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change bell sound in iTerm2

I found several answers on how to silence the bell in iTerm2 or add visual alerts to replace it. I do find the audio bell useful, but I'm starting to hate the default sound. I only want to change its sound; a duck quack would be better; how can I…
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Remote xterm terminating with an error event BadAccess

I'm logging into a remote server using ssh -x and then running xterm. Whenever the keyboard bell is trying to be run, I get the following messages and xterm exits: xterm: warning, error event received: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt…
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echo BEL character without new line in batch code?

Using the Bel Character in cmd (the CTRL+G character) I can make a sound in my batch file. However, because of how that works, it makes a new line. Is there a way I could not make a new line when making the sound?
Mark Deven
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How do I turn on/off the beep in the terminal in Linux?

In linux echo -e '\a' is one way you can alert the user with a beep. But if it isn't working how to enable or diagnose it? And if it is working how's the best way to quiet it. (This was asked here but that question was closed.)
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How can I disable the bell in the Windows console?

Possible Duplicate: Turning off the cmd window beep sound I just accidentally dumped a binary file that contained lots of BEL (ASCII 0x07) characters to my Windows command prompt. The Windows console has no limits on the number of times it will…
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DSL performance depends on ISP?

In Canada, the DSL-based internet access is open, and any ISP can sub-lease the phone cables from Bell (for example) and provide Internet to customers. My current provider is an independent one, not the major Bell. However, I find it a bit slow. If…
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disable terminal bell except when called manually

The terminal bell rings in several scenarios. To name a few: when you attempt to delete when at the beginning of a prompt when you attempt to tab complete with no valid options in vim, when you attempt to move the cursor when i cannot move (i.e.…
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Mutt checking incoming mail in tmux

I've been using mutt and liking it. I work with tmux, and one issue that I've had is receiving notifications of incoming emails (via mutt's beep_new setting). I've got the mail_check and timeout variables set correctly, and they do the right thing.…
Andrew Thaddeus Martin
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Only single beep for a series of bells in PuTTY

After typing echo -ne '\a' && echo -ne '\a' in PuTTY session only single beep is being produced on local computer instead of two beeps. What is the reason? In PuTTY settings for this session, Beep using the PC speaker radio is checked and Bell is…
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How to disable the bash "bell" on ConsoleZ?

I am using ConsoleZ to work on multiple Cygwin bash terminals. I use the Teb extensively for path completion. But by default, the "bell" sound is heard whenever the completion is not unique. This became annoying, so I looked for a way to disable…
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