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I have an irssi running forever under a "screen" in a remote linux server system. I have fedora 16 in my laptop and ssh into the server and resume my irssi screen when I come to work.

But I miss a lot of chats as I don't get any notification beeps from irssi. I want my laptop to beep for new messages in my subscribed channels. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Oliver Salzburg
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  • possible duplicate of http://superuser.com/questions/20707/to-make-irssi-system-beep – jjlin Feb 23 '12 at 06:52
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    @jjlin It's not a duplicate. If I follow the answers in your link, it would beep on the server. I want the beep on my laptop. My question is different. – Vigneshwaran Feb 23 '12 at 07:13
  • Why the heck is it not beeping for you within screen? Have you disabled the bell in your terminal emulator? As they say, It works for me(TM). – Zoredache Feb 23 '12 at 08:30
  • @Zoredache Does the remote irssi beep for you in your local machine? What command you used? – Vigneshwaran Feb 23 '12 at 11:52
  • ssh via putty, xterm, or xfce-terminal all seem to work. – Zoredache Feb 23 '12 at 16:47
  • For the note, I wrote a little script that gives notifications bubbles (using libnotify and/or growl) on my github: https://github.com/guyzmo/irssi-over-ssh-notifications because I don't like the beeps, but still need the notifications :-) – zmo Jan 11 '13 at 16:09

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Try the steps @jjlin commented above to ensure your pc speaker module is loaded.

Set irssi to beep ON for EVERYTHING to test if it works:

/set beep_msg_level ALL
/set bell_beeps ON

Tell screen to allow audible beeps with ^a^g. If you are using a local screen and screen on the remote (like I do), you need to tell the remote screen to also use audibles. Do this via the screen meta key 'a': ^aa^g. Toggles these multiple times to switch between visual and audible bells.

/msg nickserv help to hear if it works. Change the bell to clang on highlights only:

/set beep_msg_level HILIGHT
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You need to add/edit your $HOME/.screenrc to include:

VBELL OFF

And/or disable it in a running instance with C-a C-g

The default /etc/screenrc in newer Debian sets VBELL ON for some reason.

Read more at https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html#Bell

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