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Re: turning beep off in console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Tue Oct 20 07:40:50 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:44:03 -0400
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <199810201123.HAA02119@nautilus.math.clemson.edu> (message from
Matthew Saltzman on Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:23:07 -0400 (EDT))
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> From: Matthew Saltzman <mjs@math.clemson.edu>
>
> 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
Another option it to enter the following command in your terminal
windows: set nobeep
This works for tcsh (you could an put it in you .tcshrc file) and I
suspect it or something similar will work for the bash shell (in your
.bashrc file).
Dave
dreed@capital.edu
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