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hypermegachi

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Registered: 2004-07-25

Posts: 311

screen flashes when i press backspace in gnome-terminal

dunno if this is isolated for me only, but does anyone else have this same problem?

i open up gnome-terminal, and without typing anything else if i press backspace it will flash the screen.

it does it with xterm too, but not with konsole.

does anyone else have this problem?

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 1,797

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Re: screen flashes when i press backspace in gnome-terminal

This "problem" is the visual bell option.  Rather than making your computer beep, the term just flashes.  You can try this one too, start vim and hit esc repeatedly.  Do you see the flashes?

One of my favourite is 'echo -e \a' and, by extension, 'while true; do echo -e \a; done'

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bogomipz

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From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2003-11-23

Posts: 169

Re: screen flashes when i press backspace in gnome-terminal

One way to get rid of it is to run 'xset -b' after X is started (e.g. from ~/.xinitrc)

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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: screen flashes when i press backspace in gnome-terminal

another way is to run a real terminal like aterm or rxvt.