[Cialug] gnome-terminal beep

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I recently switched to gnome-terminal as my primary terminal app. I 
managed to get it configured to my liking, but there is one annoyance. 
When some program wants to beep, the terminal beeps the speaker. I'd 
much prefer it flash the terminal window like my old terminal did. Is 
there a way to configure that? So far i've not found it anywhere in 
gnome-terminal's settings.


Why do i even have this problem? Well, until recently i used 
rxvt-unicode as my primary terminal. Unfortunately, it 
uses "rxvt-unicode" for the $TERM variable, and on most systems that 
terminal is not available in the termcap/terminfo database. Updating 
the terminfo database on all the systems i ssh to would be a hassle. 
Running rxvt-unicode with a more commonly available $TERM setting (such 
as "rxvt") works OK when connecting to other systems, but it has weird 
incompatibilities when displaying some characters.

Also, ever since enabling the uim input method on my computer, 
rxvt-unicode has been slow to launch. Opening a new terminal window 
takes several seconds. Once opened it is fine, but i open new windows 
fairly often and the delay is long enough to be annoying. I decided the 
easiest solution would be to switch terminal applications. I'm not too 
picky about which one i use as long as i can set the colors and font 
size and it displays wide characters correctly (specifically, Japanese 
characters). So far i like the tabbed feature of gnome-terminal, but 
not so much that i wouldn't mind switching to some other terminal that 
doesn't have that as long as it could do everything else.

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Dan Ramaley                            Dial Center 118, Drake University
Network Programmer/Analyst             2407 Carpenter Ave
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