Turn off (mute) system beep

[Mr Fat Bat]

Thanks geofs!

My system bell was driving everyone in the office up the wall!

[Peepsalot]

Well I tried to stop this beeping by adding

set bell-style visible

to my home directory's .inputrc file.

It looks like it only works for the shell, but programs such as man still beep when I reach the end of a page, or if I accidentally press an arrow left or right from more.

Is there a way to completely disable this device on bootup?

[zaiyon]

/etc/inputrc is the readline configuration file afaik, so it turns beeping only off in readline applications (such as bash)

I managed to silence vim by adding this to my .vimrc:

set vb t_vb=

I don't need any bell, it's just annoying. No visual bell too. Still, I don't want to take my laptop apart to deactivate it.

As the last poster, my only problem now are programs like less and man, who still beep, which could cause a divorce soon if I don't find a way to get rid of it

But only on the vterms, I don't have any beeps in X since I deactivated the bell in gnome as described some posts earlier, and it worked perfectly for all applications run in X.

[neuropsychguy]

Thanks for the help. Now I can finally have that stupid beep not beep!

[irsic]

Hey. I have quite similar question. How do you turn terminal bell on?
I have tried in Terminal->Current Profile and terminal bell is checked but is not working. Any tips? Doesn't one of ASCII's od the trick?

[WolfJay_83]

stupid question- your sound works everywhere else right? I think that terminal beep in the gnome terminal is based on the sound system (as aposed to the pc speaker).

I think in gnome's sound configuration, you can change pc speaker settings. But I'm not sure.

I don't have gnome on this computer, so sorry I'm not much help. I wrote this post because I use aterm in a window manager instead of gnome, so theres no graphical way to change the sound settings.

If you're having sound issues, or realy want to fix the beep problem, I'd suggest starting a new thread. This one's realy old, so it's unlikely that your going to get the response that you would from a new one for your specific problem.

Good luck, and have fun getting everything working the way you like.
-Jason

[irsic]

thanks. I did open a new one though...no response so far

[pormogo]

Anyone have an idea how to do this in an actual terminal and not within X. I run an ubuntu server box at my office that I run without X (it basically just stores and processes logs). Any time I work on it thought I can tell the system bell is slowly driving those around me mad. Does anyone know how to turn off the system bell outside of X. Is there a bash environment variable that I can set?

[dragonfixed]

Or Just sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and add

blacklist pcspkr

[Peepsalot]

Anyone have an idea how to do this in an actual terminal and not within X. I run an ubuntu server box at my office that I run without X (it basically just stores and processes logs). Any time I work on it thought I can tell the system bell is slowly driving those around me mad. Does anyone know how to turn off the system bell outside of X. Is there a bash environment variable that I can set?

Try putting this line in your .bash_profile

echo -e "\\33[10;0]\\33[11;0]"

See section 4 for more info:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Visual-Bell

I set mine to:

echo -e "\\33[10;1000]\\33[11;5]"

Which makes a very subtle clicking noise since the duration is so short.