[Novalug] terminfo

shawn wilson ag4ve.us@gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 21:21:21 EDT 2012


first, the end goal here is to get a visible bell on the console (that
would be the actual console - not in any terminal emulator). i found
the answer for termcap in a mini-howto here:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Visual-Bell-6.html however, the rest has been a
show stopper.

so far, what i've done is:
$ cp /lib/terminfo/l/linux /lib/terminfo/l/linux.orig
$ echo $TERM
linux
$ infocmp linux > ~/linux.terminfo

i then vi that file and replaced the ^G after bel= with
\E7\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E8:\ from the
howto. then:
$ tic linux.terminfo -o./
$ cp l/linux /lib/terminfo/l/linux

however, nothing (haven't tried a reboot yet) seems to replace the
beep with any visual notification - i've tried 'reset', logging out,
and even tried to figure out 'tack' (which i failed at). any ideas?



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