Screen blinks when unauthorized action is attempted

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I'm running Fedora 16. When I'm using vim or the terminal and I mistakenly direct the cursor to an inaccessible place, eg when the cursor is all the way to the top or left of the screen, the whole screen blinks. How can I disable this?

I really like fedora but this setting drives me nuts.

Most terminals let you choose between that screen flash and an audible bell. Some let you turn it off, so that you wouldn't depend on a per-application setting. What terminal emulator do you use? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Mar 02 '12 at 22:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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It's called "Visual Bell" - see this question for how to fix it in bash.

set bell-style none

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answered Mar 02 '12 at 01:38

Aaron D. Marasco

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Thanks for pointing that put, I didn't know that it was called visual bell. I've entered 'set bell-style none' and bind 'set bell-style none' in the .bashrc file but it hasn't had any effect. I've been able to turn it off in vim though, see below. http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5310/how-can-i-disable-bells-visualbells-in-vim – NiallJG Mar 02 '12 at 02:32

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 06 '15 at 17:58

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The method that worked for me under Fedora 21 was unset LS_COLORS, to erase the contents of that environment variable.

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answered Jun 06 '15 at 17:09

R. J. Mathar

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Screen blinks when unauthorized action is attempted

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