Turn off beep / bell on linux terminal
Last Updated on Monday, 18 October 2010 22:35 Monday, 18 October 2010 19:58
Working with the terminal using a command interface is very fast and effective way of doing stuff. But have you tried working with the terminal, listening to a music via headphones and having a terminal warning or tab-completion beep / bell turned ON at the same time? Well it can be very annoying. Listening to the PC Speaker beeps via headphones is very close to a feeling of hitting your head with a hammer. Even without headphones this beeping bell sound is very annoying.
Here are some hints on how to disable terminal beep / bell :
First try to disable a terminal tab-completion bell by editing /etc/inputrc and add / replace line:
set bell-style none
You can also use the visible directive but make sure that audible is commented !
#set bell-style visible #set bell-style audible
This may not be all. If you are a vim / vi user the PC speaker beep will still annoy you. To turn it of temporarily type a following vim command while in vim:
:set visualbell
To tunr it off completely edit or create a .vimrc file in your home directory ( ~/ ) and add a following line:
set visualbell
If none of the above helps simply get rid of the PC Speaker beeps by removing a pcspkr module from your system. This should silence it completely:
# rmmod pcspkr
If you do not want to hear that annoying beep / bell of your PC Speaker again even after system reboot do the following:
# vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
and add the following line into the list:
blacklist pcspkr
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