Turn off (mute) system beep

[binaryspiral]

Great tutorial... I too was annoying the Ayche Eee Double Hockey Sticks out of my cube farm cohorts... what can I say, I do HAVE fat fingers.

Thanks again!

[shoofy]

This didn't do anything for me other than print the 33[10etc.) on the screen when I log in. I still get the beeps.

[Peepsalot]

This didn't do anything for me other than print the 33[10etc.) on the screen when I log in. I still get the beeps.

Hmm, the only thing i can think is that you didn't type it exactly right. Did you try copying and pasting the exact code to avoiding typing errors?

[shoofy]

I did. Didn't change anything. It seems logical that that's what it should be doing, doesn't it? Echo just prints back whatever comes after it...

[Peepsalot]

Well, the -e option in echo enables blackslash escapes, which it seems are interpreted by the shell as commands/configuration options of some sort.

[shoofy]

Well, the -e option in echo enables blackslash escapes, which it seems are interpreted by the shell as commands/configuration options of some sort.

That does not seem to be the case. I tried a few variations on the command in the terminal and they all came back exactly the same:

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

I get the sense that we're missing something here. Are you sure that that's the only line you added to .bash_profile?

[Peepsalot]

Are you using something other than the default shell?

What does "echo $SHELL" return?

[shoofy]

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

[Peepsalot]

well, sorry I have no idea.

[WolfJay_83]

This only works in X. You can add those lines to your .xinitrc or .xsession
(not .bashrc)

Sorry, I should have clarified that orrigionally, but I didn't figure it out untill later.