How can I have screen transmit an audible bell produced in a background window? I managed to replace the audible bell by a visual clue in the active window, but for background windows, can I get an audible bell instead of a visual notification ?

Redefine "bell_msg" to include a literal "^G". (That is, the two characters _carat_ and _Capital-G_.)

From the `screen` manpage:


bell_msg [message]

When a bell character is sent to a background window,
screen displays a notification in the message line. The
notification message can be re-defined by this command.
Each occurrence of `%' in message is replaced by the num­
ber of the window to which a bell has been sent, and each
occurrence of `^G' is replaced by the definition for bell
in your termcap (usually an audible bell).