This is an incomplete list of applications that can be instrued to use the vb
entry for the current terminal type:
tcsh
(6.04 and later): «set visiblebell
« . The instruction can appear in.cshrc
or can be issued interactively. To reset the audible bell just «unset visiblebell
« . To disable any notification issue «set nobeep
« .bash
(any bash, as fas as I know): put «set bell-style visible
» in your~/.bashrc
. Possible bell-style’s are also « none » or « audible ».bash
(withreadline
, as well as otherreadline
based applications): put «set prefer-visible-bell
» in~/.inputrc
.nvi
andelvis
: put «set flash
» in~/.exrc
or tell «:set flash
» interactively (note the colon). To disable the visible bell usenoflash
in place offlash
.emacs
: put «(setq visible-bell t)
» in your~/.emacs
. It is disabled by «(setq visible-bell nil)
« .less
: use «-q
» on command line to use the visual bell, use «-Q
» to disable any reporting. Default options can be put in your environment variable «LESS
« .screen
: issue the CtrlA-CtrlG command. It works on all the virtual screens. Refer to the man page under « CUSTOMIZATION » for setting the default.xterm
: xterm can convert each bell to either a visible or audible signal. It defualt to audible, but you can use the «-vb
» command line option and the «xterm*visualBell: true
» resource. You can toggle visible/audible signaling on the fly with the control-mouse-1 menu.- other X applications: you can tell the X server the volume of the bell, with the «
-f
volume » commandline option. « volume » is between 0 and 100. Refer to X docs/experts about how to pass command line options to the server.