which shell irc client do you like ?

[Christopher Nehren]

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On 2005-03-27, Gert Cuykens scribbled these
curious markings:
>> Surely you have screen(1) set up to show terminal beeps to you
>> *somehow*, right? I personally prefer having it use esdplay because I
>> usually have rhythmbox going, but you should be able to use a good ol'
>> terminal bell.
>
> so how do you do the beep thingie ? Becuase i did not find it ?

By default, screen translates terminal bells into messages which are
displayed at the bottom of the screen. The bad thing about this is that
it dismisses such messages as soon as you hit a key. What this means is
that if you're typing away at a document of some sort and someone
mentions your nick on IRC, you may not notice. Using ^A-G (default
keybindings) will make the bell audible, so that you'll be able to hear
it. Whether your terminal emulation program that you use to log into the
system translates it into something visual is another matter. If you
want to always use this setting but you don't want to have to hit ^A-G
every time you start screen, put this in a file named ~/.screenrc:

vbell off

And you'll never see that annoying visual bell ever again.

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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