Alternate Bell Sound?

By Ryan.L.Eiswo... on October 04, 2013 08:51 (imported from Google Code)

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I would benefit greatly from being able to have iTerm generate a different bell sound from the system-wide alert tone. The ability to set this sound per-profile would add even more granularity and usefulness.

Comment 1 by gnach... on October 06, 2013 23:20

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Labels: Milestone: Release3.0

Milestone changed to Temporary Milestone

Milestone changed to Feature complete 3.0

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mentioned in issue #3550 (closed)

Is there a way to change bell sound at all? I can't tell I'm enjoying the default ;)

It's the system bell sound, which you can change in System Prefs > Sound > Sound Effects

It's the system bell sound

exactly, I meant I'd rather have something different than system's default bell sound. IOW, let the system to ring own bells and iTerm2 different. ;)

I would love to see an option to set the system bell sound independently of System Preferences. The iterm2 program has an amazing variety of configurable options, but this rather basic choice seems to have fallen through the cracks. Any chance it can be added as a profile option? I would love to be able to select an arbitrary sound file to use as the terminal bell. As a stretch goal, it could even be tunable on a per-tab basis, so you could hear what tab was trying to get your attention!

Also would be great to be able to set a different alert sound for each iTerm profile

Open this file (drag the icon to the iTerm2 dock icon) to install a Python API script that customizes the bell:

custombell.its

You'll want to silence the built-in bell for it to work. By default it plays ~/ding.mp3 but you can edit ~/Library/Application Support/iTerm2/Scripts/AutoLaunch/custombell/custombell/custombell.py to point it at a different file.

"Hang tight! Installing new Python environment" runs for hours without seeming to actually do anything.

@NSBum Not sure what's going on with that. Sounds like unzipping isn't finishing. I didn't have much logging in that code but I've just added it. Grab tomorrow's nightly build and make a debug log reproducing the hang. You can get the nightly build here: https://iterm2.com/nightly/latest and instructions on making a debug log are here: https://iterm2.com/debuglog

Encountered this working on something - tested the script above and putting a file, and it does work, however it sounds like I am now getting both sounds (the default sound and the ding.mp3). How can I only get one?

@stacksjb Silence the bell: