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Is there a "gentle" visual bell in PuTTY?

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Mar 15, 20263436 views
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So I don't like having the system bell ring when the PuTTY receives a bell control character, so I've set it to "visual bell." This, however, causes the entire window to flash which is quite jarring and annoying. Does anyone know of a "gentle" visual bell that just flashes, say, the outermost colum…

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There doesn't seem to be such an option. From the command's own help: 4.5.1 ‘Set the style of bell’ This control allows you to select various different actions to occur on a terminal bell: Selecting ‘None’ disables the bell completely. In this mode,…

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