GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 673765
Please support DECSET 1042 (set urgency hint on bell) and 1043 (raise window on bell)
Last modified: 2021-06-10 14:35:32 UTC
I'd like to configure some of my terminal applications to get my attention when they have useful information. For instance, I'd like mutt to let me know when new mail appears, and I'd like screen to raise the window when I've used it to launch a new program in an existing screen. X applications can do that by setting an urgency hint on the window or attempting to raise themselves, but terminal applications can't do that. For these purposes, xterm supports the DECSET 1042 and 1043 control sequences, which cause xterm to set the urgency hint on bell and raise the window on bell, respectively. Please consider supporting these in VTE. Test case: sleep 2 ; printf '\e[?1043h\a\e[?1043l' That should attempt to raise the terminal window after 2 seconds.
Those would just be signals emitted from VteTerminal that the actual UI (gnome-terminal) is free to ignore, or handle, as it wants.
(In reply to comment #1) > Those would just be signals emitted from VteTerminal that the actual UI > (gnome-terminal) is free to ignore, or handle, as it wants. Of course, but ideally gnome-terminal could then support those signals.
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