This is an incomplete list of applications that can be instrued
to use the vb entry for the current terminal type (using either
the termcap information or the terminfo one):
xset b" command to select
the bell's behaviour. The command takes three numeric
arguments: volume, pitch and duration. "xset -b" disables
the bell altogether. Configuring the X server affects all
the applications running on the display.
xterm: xterm can convert each bell to either a visible or
audible signal. If you use the audible bell, the settings of
"xset" will apply. The bell in xterm defualts to be
audible, but you can use the "-vb" command line option
and the "xterm*visualBell: true" resource to turn it to a
visible flash. You can toggle visible/audible signaling at
run-time by using the menu invoked by
control--left-mouse-button. If you run X you most likely
won't need the following information.
tcsh (6.04 and later): "set visiblebell". The
instruction can be placed in .cshrc or can be issued
interactively. To reset the audible bell just "unset
visiblebell". To disable any notification issue use "set
nobeep" instead.
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 (with readline, as well as other readline
based applications): put "set prefer-visible-bell" in
~/.inputrc.
nvi and elvis: put "set flash" in
~/.exrc or tell ":set flash" interactively (note
the colon). To disable the visible bell use noflash in
place of flash.
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 changes the
behaviour of all the virtual screens. Refer to the man page
under "CUSTOMIZATION" for setting the default.