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Just a simple question is there any way to switch off the sometimes annoying beep at the bash prompt. eg. when you get to the end of a page or somthing like that.
NOTE: This is not a laptop/notebook so there is no special key to toggle the beeping noise on or off.
edit /etc/termcap, find the linux onsole definition and remove the bl=^G entry or maybe replace it with bl=\E7\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E8: which should make the screen flash instead. alledgely you can also add "set bell-style none" in your .bashrc, but that doesn't do anything for me
Originally posted by acid_kewpie edit /etc/termcap, find the linux console definition and remove the bl=^G entry or maybe replace it with bl=\E7\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E8: which should make the screen flash instead. alledgely you can also add "set bell-style none" in your .bashrc, but that doesn't do anything for me
Thanks for that acid_kewpie, I'll try that. I guess the screen flashes are better having the computer beeping at ya.
Just a simple question is there any way to switch off the sometimes annoying beep at the bash prompt. eg. when you get to the end of a page or somthing like that.
NOTE: This is not a laptop/notebook so there is no special key to toggle the beeping noise on or off.
Another simple solution is to blacklist the particular module that makes the system beep. You can either go into the file
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
and add the line: "blacklist pcspkr", or if you want to implement it live simply run the commmand "modprobe -r pcspkr" as root, and the beeps will be gone. This also disables beeps across the whole system, regardless of who's logged in, which I like because I login as many different users on my systems for different reasons.
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