system beeps in terminal

curmudgeon42 · 01-09-2005, 11:38 PM

In both the non-graphical terminal, and the Konsole terminal of my Gentoo box, I am getting system beeps a lot (from the PC speaker - not my normal speakers). it seems to happen when i hit tab to complete a path and it can't auto-complete. also, if i hit backspace on an empty line. i'm sure it happens other times those are just examples. i want to be able to get rid of these beeps completely. i find them quite annoying and quite useless. can somebody help?

thanks in advance,

~ Justin

daihard · 01-10-2005, 12:33 AM

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Originally posted by curmudgeon42
In both the non-graphical terminal, and the Konsole terminal of my Gentoo box, I am getting system beeps a lot (from the PC speaker - not my normal speakers). it seems to happen when i hit tab to complete a path and it can't auto-complete. also, if i hit backspace on an empty line. i'm sure it happens other times those are just examples. i want to be able to get rid of these beeps completely. i find them quite annoying and quite useless. can somebody help?

Go to KDE Control Center, choose "Sound & Multimedia" --> "System Notifications." Select "KDE System Notifications" for the Event source. There's an event called "Something special happened to the program." Uncheck the "play a sound" option on that event. That should disable the annoying beep when you hit the backspace key on an empty line.

Not sure about the other event, though. Which shell are you using?

curmudgeon42 · 01-10-2005, 04:55 AM

Daihard,

I did your fix. It didn't seem to help much. Beeps are still occuring, even in Konsole when I backspace on an empty line.

I also noticed that Thunderbird is beeping for new mail. Not sure if that is related or not. Do I have some sort of sound missing that KDE is expecting, and so it is playing a system beep?

I guess I could always unplug my PC speaker. :-) (Just kidding.)

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

~ Justin

reddazz · 01-10-2005, 05:11 AM

Try disabling the sound from the preferences/settings menu of each individual application. and see if that stops it for that particular application.

BinaryLinux · 01-10-2005, 06:45 AM

I used to have a similar problem with Slackware and managed to fix it so this might work for you. Open up the file /etc/inputrc and look for a line that says:

set bell-style none

If the last word is set to something else like audible then change it to none and make sure that a comment isn't in front of the line before saving the file. Now restart your machine and you should find that the internal speaker won't make any more noise.

curmudgeon42 · 01-12-2005, 04:29 PM

that worked! thanks Binary.