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From: "Bob Hockney" <zeus@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to turn off keyboard bell
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

> 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...

For those that may be interested, in sh/bash (or actually readline), it is done
with "set bell-style none" in inputrc.  But this still doesn't affect programs that
don't use readline.

-Bob