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For the first time in roughly three years, the Terminal app icon in the dock shows that red new message overlay.
To the right, the same happens with Thunderbird which I am used to as I do have three new emails. But what does that new message overlay in Terminal app mean?
I have no new mail in /var/mail/$USER nor does Terminal show any message when started.
This looks like it might be a problem with a system font. Try this...
/Applications)If any fonts are corrupt, this method should alert you to the problem.
Google finds an example of what is, I think, disabling bounces for all Dock icons (not Terminal alone):
Annoying infinite bounces of an icon on alert!!!
defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE
However, that may be not the solution in this case. Puzzling me:
[macbookpro08:~] gjp22% date
Tue 2 Aug 2011 13:40:41 BST
[macbookpro08:~] gjp22% uname -a
Darwin macbookpro08.centrim.freeman-centre.ac.uk 11.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sat Jun 18 12:56:35 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.22.73~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
[macbookpro08:~] gjp22% defaults read com.apple.dock no-bouncing
2011-08-02 13:40:57.029 defaults[2501:303]
The domain/default pair of (/Users/gjp22/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist, no-bouncing) does not exist
— nothing relating to no-bouncing my preference file, and I can run for example
tail -f -n 50 /private/var/log/system.log
— then bring something other than Terminal to foreground, watch things added to the log and in my case:
Best Answer
That badge indicates a "beep" that happened while the terminal was not in the foreground.
To see it, you can send a beep command to your terminal. Type this command, hit return, then click to another window that is not a terminal window:
Are you saying that it went away (as it should) if you view all open Terminal windows or tabs? Or is it stuck on? Or you were just wondering where it came from?