"set bell-style none" doesn't silence my bell.
 

Hi All,

I have tried modifying /etc/inputrc to set my bell-style to none. It doesn't sound like it works. I have also made the change in /usr/share/base-files/inputrc just in case for some strange reason it picks up the config there. Eitherway, my system bell still beeps at me and it's driving me insane. :mad:

Any ideas how to fix this? :scratch:

Currently
Ubuntu 5.04
Kernel 2.6.10-5-386
Running in VMWare 5 for now

Try "setterm -blength 0" (in console) or "xset -b" (in X)

You can also put this in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile or whatever.

To totally silence the bell at boot time it may be appropriate to put "setterm -blength 0 >/dev/ttyX" in the startup scripts (a line for each terminal you wish to silence, with X the appropriate number).

The best file to put it in is a bit distro-specific I'm afraid... :(

That works.

As for silencing it through my virtual consoles, no sweat.

Is there a place to make this universal throughout the system for X users? I want to ensure that by default the bell is off and have my users only turn it on if they so desire.

p.s. I like your sig

If you use a display manager (xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm, ...), somewhere in their setup directories (something like /etc/X11/xdm), there should be a script called "Xsession". This runs after a user logs into X (and ultimately runs his window manager). So this is a good place to put "xset -b" in. Users can then "xset +b" to turn the bell back on.

If your users go into X from console using "startx", then there is no system-wide place to do it; they'll have to put it in their ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession

Thx :D

Perfect. Thanks.

Ubuntu and inputrc
 

Yes, I also had this problem and though the setterm solution is fine, the worry remains about what Ubuntu actually does with /etc/inputrc.

Does it ignore it? I ran a search right now on ubuntuforums and the word inputrc got 4 results, none of which really dealt with this issue.

/etc/inputrc is pretty crucial to command line editing. Ubuntu has to be using something . Guesses?

Sorry, I've no experience with Ubuntu... :(

Turn bell off in terminal session
 

Hi,

have a look for profile on gnome-terminal or for properties when
the terminal is open.
If you find a entry named terminal bell, remove the active flag.

That did help me, maybe it will help you too.