Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:32:36 +0100 From: Frank Shute <frank@woodcruft.co.uk> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no beep any more Message-ID: <20160726173236.GA62958@lime.woodcruft.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20160726114846.GA6424@c720-r292778-amd64> References: <20160726114846.GA6424@c720-r292778-amd64>
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 01:48:46PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Hello, > > Yesterday I realized that my Acer C720 does not issue any beep, for > example in terminals or on alpha console with 'printf "\7"' > The sound general is working, for example playing something with mplayer > or the jingle on KDE start. I'm not aware of having installed something > during the last days. Is this somehow configureable with sysctl? > > $ kbdcontrol -b normal > > does not help. > > ANy ideas? > Yeah. Get down on your hands and knees and pray hard that it stays that way. To be serious, I turn it off wherever it might possibly rear it's ugly head. So ~/.Xdefaults: XTerm*visualBell: true vim/gvim in ~/.vimrc: set vb " visualbell The idea of my DE/WM playing a jingle on start-up is enough to send a shudder down my spine :( Blinkenlights? Yes. Noises? Hell, no. Sorry, I've probably been of no help to you Matthias but hopefully I've been of some help to my fellow travellers in the anti-noise camp. Regards, -- Frank https://woodcruft.co.uk/
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