[BRLTTY] Associate an action to the bell on the console?

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dave Mielke (2025/12/07 17:05 -0500):
> [quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/12/07 at 14:16 +0100]
>
> >Is there a way to configure how the bell is emitted by Linux's virtual console, currently? I mean, beyond audible and visual bell, is there a possibility to configure a program that should be run to emit the bell?
>
> No, but you could write a program that monitors the correct /dev/input/event device for bell events and then do whatever you want when one arrives.

Oh! I'll give that a look thanks.

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