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erniee

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Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 15

Disable BEEPS!

Hello, I'm wondering if there is a way to disable the beeps that I'm hearing a lot of times when I use tab to complete something for me when working in the terminal?

Thanks for reading

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Disable BEEPS!

If this is the audible bell, then edit ~/.Xdefaults and add

  [termname]*vbell: True

That sets visual bell on, which turns audible bell off.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Disable BEEPS!

Alternatively, you could put the pcspkr module on hwdetect's blacklist.

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Disable BEEPS!

Alternatively, you could put the pcspkr module on hwdetect's blacklist.

That's a handy trick I didn't know about - what file's the blacklist in?

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smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 468

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Re: Disable BEEPS!

Alternatively, you could put the pcspkr module on hwdetect's blacklist.

That's a handy trick I didn't know about - what file's the blacklist in?

Try /etc/rc.conf's MOD_BLACKLIST variable

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Disable BEEPS!

Alternatively, you could put the pcspkr module on hwdetect's blacklist.

That's a handy trick I didn't know about - what file's the blacklist in?

Try /etc/rc.conf's MOD_BLACKLIST variable

Cheers smoon

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FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: Disable BEEPS!

Does that work for the new initrd-scheme Arch uses nowadays? After a system boot I've got +100 loaded modules, most of them don't even apply to my system! If I paste those names in the MOD_BLACKLIST, will that prevent them from being loaded?

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: Disable BEEPS!

fubar no ide modules need to be disablen in mkinitrd.conf by adding your modules you need.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Disable BEEPS!

You could use xset and setterm to change the console bell properties and make it less loud or have a different pitch.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Disable BEEPS!

Does that work for the new initrd-scheme Arch uses nowadays? After a system boot I've got +100 loaded modules, most of them don't even apply to my system! If I paste those names in the MOD_BLACKLIST, will that prevent them from being loaded?

Enable autodetection in /etc/mkinitrd.conf:

AUTODETECT=1

Then specify the filesystems you use, by modules. For example, ext3 would be

FILESYSTEMS="jbd ext3"

Then remake the initrd and reboot, and all the cruft will be gone.

sash

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 155

Re: Disable BEEPS!

You could use xset and setterm to change the console bell properties and make it less loud or have a different pitch.

... or turn it off:

xset -b

T-Dawg

Forum Fellow

From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Disable BEEPS!

What the hell is this? Nobody respects the beep? Have you not ever found it hand to use it when say you have an email client such as sylpheed to let you know when new mail arrives?

well I have something for all of ya:

echo -e "a"