Re: [xmonad] Irssi, ssh and urgency

On Mon, 2011/08/15 19:37:56 -0400, Tom Davis wrote:

I use irssi over ssh/screen as I imagine many of you do. ... Long story long, I want to use basic urgency hook support now. I've confirmed xterm is all setup to send bell and that my urgency hook works. Unfortunately, it doesn't work over ssh.

On both machines I tested, screen disables the bell by default. C-a C-g toggles the bell on or off, as does the command vbell¹. This might be your problem. You can test the bell by running “echo -e '\a'”. 1. http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/screen-3.9.4/html_chapter/scree...