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sonycdr

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[SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

Using XFCE 4.18 on openSUSE Leap 15.5, xfce4-terminal version 1.0.4.

In previous version of XFCE and terminal (on Leap 15.4), I could try this in the terminal:

sleep 5; echo $'\a'

Minimizing the terminal window immediately after command run, and the minimized window visually blinked shortly after.

Now this no longer works, nothing happens at all (neither audible bell).

I do have both MiscBell and MiscBellUrgent to TRUE in ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc...

Could someone help please?
Thanks.

Last edited by sonycdr (2023-08-22 17:33:54)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

Perhaps the issue is similar to this one?

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sonycdr

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

Probably, but right now what's mattering is the visual bell, the visual blinking, which is no longer working at all...
That other thread is about the audible bell

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

My bad, I mis-understood.

For the visual urgency, are you using the a greybird-based theme? Is so, see: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16789 and https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird/issues/339. It works with the default Adwaita theme for me.

Edit: The dracula theme has a suggested-action css code that kind of works in greybird. You can tweak the values to suit:

button.suggested-action {
  font-weight: normal;
  color: white;
  outline-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3);
  background-color: #bd93f9;
  text-shadow: none;
  box-shadow: inset 0px 1px 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1), inset 0px -1px 0px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
}

Last edited by ToZ (2023-08-19 20:16:35)

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sonycdr

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

Sorry for the very late response...

Yes, indeed I'm using greybird-based theme

How do I use that css code?

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

How do I use that css code?

Start by adding it to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (create the file if it doesn't exist) and restart xfce4-panel:

xfce4-panel -r

Then test again. You may need to tweak the values in the snippet to match with what you are looking for.

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sonycdr

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Re: [SOLVED] Visual bell not working at all in xfce4-terminal

Thanks very much, that worked.

Still, very surprised the Github issue has not been attended yet...