Disable flash

[Tobbe]

Hi, and first of all, thanks a lot for creating wezterm.

Is it possible to turn off the flash happens for example when you try to tab-complete a path and there are multiple matches? At first I was going to ask "Is it possible to disable the visual bell", but now I'm not sure that's the correct terminology as #3 makes it sound as there is no visual bell implemented. But I hope you understand what I'm asking.

[wez]

wezterm doesn't have any flashing or bell functionality. Perhaps it is the shell or application that you are using that is doing that?

[Tobbe]

Sorry, I should have provided more context.

I'm on Windows 10. Using git-bash as my shell. I found the easiest way to trigger the flash is to just press backspace at the command prompt.

Here's my config file

local wezterm = require "wezterm"
local gitbash = {"C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe", "-i", "-l"}
return {
    color_scheme = "Dracula",
    default_prog = gitbash,
    window_background_opacity = 0.9,

    font_size = 9.0,

    launch_menu = {
        {
            label = "Powershell",
            args = {"powershell"},
        },
        {
            label = "Git Bash",
            args = gitbash,
        },
    },
}

I don't get that flash when running the same shell in another terminal (neither in ConEmu nor MinTTY)

[Tobbe]

Here's a screen recording when I press backspace

flash.mp4

[wez]

I think you need to configure your bash/inputrc to control this: there is no code in wezterm that does this; I hate visual bells!

[kar1]

FWIW microsoft/terminal#7200

To fix: nano ~/.inputrc and add the text set bell-style none or set bell-style audible. Press Ctrl + O and Ctrl + X to Save and Exit.

I found this behaviour to be really distracting/disurbing.
The regular Git Bash terminal does exhibit this behaviour, though I can confirm that /c/Program Files/Git/etc/.inputrc does contain set bell-style visible (and that command is not overwritten by anything in .inputrc.

Note that set bell-style audible does not give a ping sound in Git Bash in Windows Terminal, but it does do so in regular Git Bash.