[wplug] stopping system beeps

[Bryon Gill]

Another option: most soundcard mixers these days have a speaker volume 
setting, you could just turn the beeps off.  I think there's also a bash 
environment variable that lets you define some characteristics of the 
beep (tone duration etc.), but I could be mistaken.

As an aside, a company I used to work for sold an accounting software 
package.  Apparently there was significant debate about what the error 
beep should sound like when invalid input was submitted.  In the end, it 
sounded like "Ba-dum-dum.", and if you played it at just the right tempo 
it sounded like the intro to "My Girl", and people would inevitably bust 
out with "I've got sunshiiiiiiiine... on a clooooudy daaaaaay...."

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Mike Kuentz (2) wrote:

> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Visual-Bell.html
> 
> 
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> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
> Teodorski, Chris
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:09 AM
> To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
> Subject: [wplug] stopping system beeps
> 
> 
> How can I stop my system from beeping on things like hitting tab when
> there are multiple matches, scrolling too far in VI etc?  Is there a way
> to disable it for all apps?  (I'm not running X).
>  
> My laptop has been making my co-workers crazy with all the beeping.....
>  
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