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Putty

Use Your Own Terminal Bell Sound

SUMMARY: Use a bell sound of your choosing instead of your computer's default sound when a system accessed in Putty needs to alert you.

When accessing a remote site with Putty, when a Ctrl+G is received (ASCII code 7), Putty plays a bell sound. This is normally used when a remote system needs to alert the user of an error or warning condition.

Instead of playing your system default alert sound as the bell, you can instead play a .WAV file of your choosing.

1. Open Putty.

2. Click on the "Session" link.

3. Click "Default Settings", or a defined session, then the "Load" button.

4. Expand the "Terminal" tree in the left pane.

5. Click "Bell" in the left pane.

6. In the right pane, underneath "Set the style of bell", click the "Play a custom sound file" radio button.

7. Underneath "Custom sound file to play as a bell", click the "Browse" button.

8. Navigate your system to find the desired .WAV file, and double-click it.

Setting a custom terminal bell sound in Putty

9. Click on the "Session" link.

10. Choose the session name you chose in #3, or "Default Settings".

11. Click the "Save" button.

Note that if you change the default settings, you will still need to change the settings for each saved session. Or, you can choose to have different terminal bell sounds for each session.