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To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@linuxcare.com>
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Subject: Re: laptop speaker question 
Reply-To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:16:04 PDT."
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Bill Schoolcraft <bill@linuxcare.com> wrote:

> > Is there a way I could mute the speaker? There is no /dev/speaker,
> > and speaker is not in my kernel conf.
> 
> On a flight to the east coast I was doing the same thing and used a
> "screen" session to work out of, it apparently disabled the
> sytem_beeps.

     ... only if visual bell is enabled.  I think the default for
screen(1) is for the visual bell to be disabled (according to the man
page, at least).

     Alternatively, doesn't "xset b off" work?

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	Darryl Okahata
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