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

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I am missing terminal bell in Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon. The option in terminal preferences is enabled, but still there is no sound. Volume is up, other sounds are played, also I can hear music. I can ...
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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 ...
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I'd like to issue 2-3 rapid, consecutive alerts in an automated script running in the standard terminal app. I am already able to issue a single alert with echo -e '\a'. However, when I try to issue ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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I use Putty to SSH my remote Ubuntu 16.04 server. 1. Putty bell won't ring: I want to ring the Putty bell and tried the dedicated commands for that: echo -e "\07" && echo -e "\007" When I ...
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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'...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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,...
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