From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 18:04:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B34C1065670 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:04:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xi@borderworlds.dk) Received: from kazon.borderworlds.dk (kazon.borderworlds.dk [IPv6:2a01:4f8:101:4201::1:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBAB8FC15 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from talaxian.borderworlds.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kazon.borderworlds.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B205C34 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:04:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F049493.5010203@borderworlds.dk> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:04:03 +0100 From: Christian Laursen Organization: The Border Worlds User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: xset cannot disable bell? X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:04:05 -0000 On 01/04/12 07:43, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > Hi all, > > I took a (long-overdue) ports upgrade a few days ago, and after > rebuilding everything from scratch, I find that I can no longer disable > the X bell with 'xset -b', either in my .xinitrc or from an xterm. Other > permutations such as 'xset b off' and 'xset b 0 0 0' also have no effect. This happened to me a very long time ago and is quite annoying. I never managed to disable the bell inside X, but adding "hw.syscons.bell=0" to /etc/sysctl.conf makes it go away for good. -- Christian Laursen