Re: console beeping

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From: pink ataraxia
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 03:00

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Thomas Conner Annandale bounced around while typing:
> I'm in KDE, RedHat 8.0.  My console (Gnome-Terminal) beeps at every 
> occasion it can think of.  Not only is this incredibly annoying, but every 
> time it beeps, it prevents mpg123 from working for a couple of seconds.  
> I've tried to disable this from the various control panels, but can't find 
> a way.  Is there something I can put in my .bashrc?  Or something else?

Try editing your /etc/inputrc (or $HOME/.inputrc) and add 
set bell-style visible

This sets a variable for the readline library.  Valid values are none,
visible, and audible.

If that doesn't work, its something to do with X/gnome terminal.

-Pink

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