On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 03:19:30 GMT, aq
<njl@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
> Hello all, after discovering a possible rootkit and also since
> things weren't generally running as smoothly as they could be i decided to
> simply reinstall my system.
>
> Everything is working fine although there is one small thing which is
> kinda bugging me-it never used to happen before and i don't know where to
> start looking for a solution.
>
> The thing is this (i'm not sure if i can all this a
> "problem"), whenever i type into an xterminal or a gnome-terminal window
> at my bash prompt and try to use the [tab] autocompletion the screen
> blinks at me, the autocompletion works but it's a bit of a nuisance. This
> does not occur in a konsole window.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Maybe the visual bell is turned on. In xterm this can be toggled on/off
in the ctrl-middle-click menu, or it can be set as a resource in
~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults or /etc/X11/app-defaults/xterm


--
BOFH excuse #270:

Someone has messed up the kernel pointers