[95662] in RedHat Linux List
turning beep off in console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Saltzman)
Tue Oct 20 07:23:33 1998
From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@math.clemson.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:23:07 -0400 (EDT)
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Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net> wrote:
>sma202@omicron.ACF.NYU.EDU wrote:
>>
>> How can I turn that irritating beep off in any terminal?
>
>If you want to disable the thing for ALL noises, put a switch
>in there. Two candidates are the useless "turbo" switch, or
>the keyboard lock switch. Some people put an LED in place of
>the speaker; the turbo LED is a good candidate for this.
This seems like the hard way to me. My .Xdefaults/.Xresources files
contain the line
*visualBell: true
And my xterms/nxterms/rxvts don't beep (they blink). I suspect
there's a connection here.
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs@clemson.edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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