Audible bell broken in bash/xterm

Thomas Dickey dickey@his.com
Thu Jul 16 23:06:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

> Mine says (242).  There is no more recent (non-experimental) version
> available from Cygwin 1.7 setup.

I don't have any influence on Cygwin's setup.  (You may be able to select
an older version - I'd just compile my own copy of xterm though).

>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Thomas Dickey<dickey@his.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, john@asyn.org wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've installed Cygwin/X on both XP Pro and laVista Home Basic systems and
>>> the bell doesn't work. The bell does work in a console window but not in
>>> an xterm. Am I missing something or is this a bug? How is the <BEL> char
>>> [supposed to be] routed through bash/xterm/XWin to create the audible
>>> response? Both systems are fresh installs (as of last week) with no config
>>> changes or errors during the installs.
>>
>> What's "xterm -v" say?
>>
>> Audible bell was broken in #242, and fixed in #243.
>
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