Advanced _ Bell

Xshell incorporates several options to utilize the typical sytems' bell sounds using the ASCII character number 7(Bell character, ^G).

Bell Settings
Select how to acknowledge the bell character.

• None (Ignore bell request) : Do not respond to the server's bell character output
• Default system alert sound : Play Window's default alert sound
• PC Speaker : Play the bell sound via the PC's speakers
• Play the following sound : Play a user defined .wav format file

Flash window and taskbar if window is not focused
If the bell enabled window is behind another window or if the user is working on another program, the icon on the Windows taskbar and the window itself will flash to notifify the user that there was a bell ouput on the remote system.

Ignore Bell
Non system alerts and etc. may cause unintendedl bell rings due to incorrect output strings in the terminal. Time intervals can be set to avoid unintended bell rings.

Temporarily disable the bell if the bell request is received more than once during the following time duration.
Any bell requests made more than once during the time duration set here (seconds) will be ignored.

Re-enable it after the following period of time.
After a bell request has been ignored, bell requests will once again be accepted after no bell requests are made in the time duration set here (seconds).