Está absolutamente relacionado ao seu terminal. O TEV não suporta piscar, se você usar gnome-terminal, tilda, guake, terminator, xfce4-terminale assim por diante de acordo com TEV, Você não tem piscar.
Se você usa ou deseja usar o piscar no VTE, é necessário usá-lo xterm.
Você pode usar o comando infocmp com o nome do terminal:
#infocmp vt100
#infocmp xterm
#infocmp vte
Por exemplo :
# infocmp vte
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/v/vte
vte|VTE aka GNOME Terminal,
am, bce, mir, msgr, xenl,
colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, ncv#16, pairs#64,
acsc=``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
bel=^G, bold=\E[1m, civis=\E[?25l, clear=\E[H\E[2J,
cnorm=\E[?25h, cr=^M, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr,
cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=^J,
cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH,
cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P,
dim=\E[2m, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ech=\E[%p1%dX, ed=\E[J,
el=\E[K, enacs=\E)0, home=\E[H, hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I,
hts=\EH, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=^J, invis=\E[8m,
is2=\E[m\E[?7h\E[4l\E>\E7\E[r\E[?1;3;4;6l\E8,
kDC=\E[3;2~, kEND=\E[1;2F, kHOM=\E[1;2H, kIC=\E[2;2~,
kLFT=\E[1;2D, kNXT=\E[6;2~, kPRV=\E[5;2~, kRIT=\E[1;2C,
kb2=\E[E, kbs=\177, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB,
kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\EOF, kf1=\EOP,
kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~, kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[1;2P,
kf14=\E[1;2Q, kf15=\E[1;2R, kf16=\E[1;2S, kf17=\E[15;2~,
kf18=\E[17;2~, kf19=\E[18;2~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[19;2~,
kf21=\E[20;2~, kf22=\E[21;2~, kf23=\E[23;2~,
kf24=\E[24;2~, kf25=\E[1;5P, kf26=\E[1;5Q, kf27=\E[1;5R,
kf28=\E[1;5S, kf29=\E[15;5~, kf3=\EOR, kf30=\E[17;5~,
kf31=\E[18;5~, kf32=\E[19;5~, kf33=\E[20;5~,
kf34=\E[21;5~, kf35=\E[23;5~, kf36=\E[24;5~,
kf37=\E[1;6P, kf38=\E[1;6Q, kf39=\E[1;6R, kf4=\EOS,
kf40=\E[1;6S, kf41=\E[15;6~, kf42=\E[17;6~,
kf43=\E[18;6~, kf44=\E[19;6~, kf45=\E[20;6~,
kf46=\E[21;6~, kf47=\E[23;6~, kf48=\E[24;6~,
kf49=\E[1;3P, kf5=\E[15~, kf50=\E[1;3Q, kf51=\E[1;3R,
kf52=\E[1;3S, kf53=\E[15;3~, kf54=\E[17;3~,
kf55=\E[18;3~, kf56=\E[19;3~, kf57=\E[20;3~,
kf58=\E[21;3~, kf59=\E[23;3~, kf6=\E[17~, kf60=\E[24;3~,
kf61=\E[1;4P, kf62=\E[1;4Q, kf63=\E[1;4R, kf7=\E[18~,
kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, kfnd=\E[1~, khome=\EOH,
kich1=\E[2~, kind=\E[1;2B, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~,
kpp=\E[5~, kri=\E[1;2A, kslt=\E[4~, meml=\El, memu=\Em,
op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, ri=\EM, ritm=\E[23m,
rmacs=^O, rmam=\E[?7l, rmcup=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8, rmir=\E[4l,
rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[m, rmul=\E[m, rs1=\Ec,
rs2=\E7\E[r\E8\E[m\E[?7h\E[!p\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E>\E[?1000l\E[?25h,
sc=\E7, setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm,
sgr=\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p7%t;8%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;,
sgr0=\E[0m\017, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=^N, smam=\E[?7h,
smcup=\E7\E[?47h, smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m,
smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n,
u8=\E[?%[;0123456789]c, u9=\E[c, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,
