bell is unreliable, only works occasionally

[lilyanatia]

Windows Terminal version

1.22.11141.0

Windows build number

10.0.26100.4351

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

in cmd.exe: @for /l %i in (1,1,20) do @( echo %i^^G & timeout /t 1 /nobreak >nul )

or in Debian WSL: for i in $(seq 1 20); do echo "$i\x07"; sleep 1; done

Expected Behavior

bell sounds 20 times

Actual Behavior

bell only sounds 1-3 times

[DHowett]

Funny enough, this is by design! Considering the inter-process delay, there are times when the new bell will lose the race and times when it will win.

terminal/src/cascadia/TerminalControl/TermControl.cpp

Lines 41 to 42 in a25d968

	// The minimum delay between emitting warning bells
	constexpr const auto TerminalWarningBellInterval = std::chrono::milliseconds(1000);

If you have need of more melodic notification sounds and specific control over their delays, you might have some fun with DECPS (Play Sound). 😁

[lilyanatia]

what I need is reliable notification sounds from Linux software in WSL. I don't really care if the bell is delayed, but I need to be able to hear how many there are. if the bell just randomly doesn't work, that makes it useless as a notification.