Please set bell-style none

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Sun Apr 1 21:18:14 UTC 2007


On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 07:31:35PM +0200, Patrick wrote:
> 
> As long as I can remember the pc speaker makes a very loud beep noise
> when either doing tab completion or backspace in a console. Would it be
> possible to kill this frighteningly loud sound by setting bell-style to
> none in inputrc?

It should be, or with 'setterm'.  Something like 'setterm -bfreq 0'
should do.

OTOH a radical way to kill this beeping, regardless through which
mechanism something is trying to do that, is with that line:

install pcspkr :

in /etc/modprobe.conf

   Michal




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