Linux – visual bell in Linux that works in X

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I know there is such a thing as a visual bell in Vim that makes the whole screen flash instead of beeping. Several terminal programs also have the same feature.

I'm looking for a similar type of visual bell that will flash all of my screens, on all of my virtual desktops, in X. I've only got headphones at work and my pc speaker is too quiet, so I need some other notification method that will definitely get my attention.

Does anyone know if it exists?

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I don't of anything exactly like that, but you can use the command line tool notify-send to have pop-ups on the desktop. In Ubuntu the package is libnotify-bin. For example:

notify-send -u normal -t 10000 -i info 'hw' 'Hello world'

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