(Modified 2009 Feb 16)

Terminal settings
Activating the terminal bell

I use pine to read mail from the terminal. In many tabbed consoles, there is no notification when a new message arrives; there is no visible flag on the tab or audible beep by default. To turn this function on in xfce4-terminal, do the following:

  1. Go to .config/Terminal
  2. Open terminalrc in a text editor.
  3. Find the MiscBell setting, and change it to TRUE.

I didn't have to restart my terminal to elicit this change.

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