Solo can play an audible bell when terminal notification events fire — things like the classic BEL character (\a) and supported terminal notification sequences.
Configure bell sound
- Open Settings. The default shortcut is
Cmd+,on macOS andCtrl+,on other platforms. A custom Hotkeys binding for Open settings takes precedence. - Go to Notifications.
- Find Bell sound.
- Choose a sound, or select None to mute.
Use the Test button next to the picker to hear the selected sound. The default is Ping.
Available sounds
On macOS, the picker lists the built-in system sounds from /System/Library/Sounds, plus any custom sounds you've placed in ~/Library/Sounds. If the sound list has already loaded, restart Solo after adding a file to ~/Library/Sounds so the new sound appears in the picker.
Bell sound selection and configured Solo bell playback are currently macOS-only. On Windows, Solo currently sends native notifications with their notification sound disabled.
What to expect
- Bell playback follows your system volume.
- The bell is tied to terminal-notification events like BEL and supported OSC notification sequences, plus important process alerts such as crashes and auto-restart exhaustion.
- Focused same-process suppression applies to terminal BEL/OSC notifications, including their bell. Important crash and auto-restart-exhaustion alerts are not suppressed merely because that process is selected.
- Terminal BEL/OSC alerts require an effective notification level of All. Important-alert bell delivery uses the current frontend project and process level snapshots; a missing project snapshot falls back to Important, and a missing process snapshot falls back to All.
Disable bell sounds
Set Bell sound to None in Settings.