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Subject: Re: How to turn off keyboard bell
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Bob wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I'm having a difficult time turning off the keyboard bell.  I have tried 
>kbdcontrol -b off and setting keybell="NO" in rc.conf, but this only shortens 
>it down to a chirp.  If I set kbdcontrol -b visual, then the audible bell goes 
>away completely and I get a flashing screen instead.  What am I missing here?  
>How can I turn the bell off completely?  This is on a fresh install of 4.9.
>
>-Bob
>  
>

Using tcsh as shell:

$set nobeep

Don't know about sh/bash and friends...

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.