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Questions tagged [bell]

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How to turn off the beep only in bash tab-complete

I find the beep useful for some things, so I only want to turn it off for tab completion (I'm not asking how to completely turn it off, that has already been answered in a different question on Serverfault). I also don't have root access, working on…
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How to disable beep tone in xfce when the delete button is pressed?

I newly installed xfce on Arch Linux. xfce makes a beep noise every time I press the delete button or backspace, which is really annoying. How can I disable this? I tried un-commenting set bell-style none, but that didn't work.
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How can I disable bells/visualbells in vim?

How can I disable bells/visualbells in vim? I've tried: set noeb set novb .. but nothing has changed afaik. Just to be clear, I'm referring to the visual bell I get in vim when I do something that doesn't do anything, for exmaple pressing ESC in…
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Is there a way to make tail -F beep?

Is there a way to make tail -F or less beep (ring the bell in a terminal) when new data comes in (a new line is added to the file). Or is there any other unix utility to do this on a linux or mac.
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Turn off beep of Xorg

How should I disable beep permanently? I know xset b off can do this, but what's the corresponding option in xorg.conf? Or any other way to do this?
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Turn off terminal bell in man pages and less

I'm wondering if there's a way to turn off the terminal bell for terminal applications such as man and less, e.g. when you're already at the top of the file/man page and press "k" to attempt to scroll up. Normally, I'd just turn off the bell on my…
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Best practice for generating bell/beep in a *n*x GUI-oriented program

I've managed to get myself into an argument elsewhere trying to discourage somebody from writing a library that invokes aplay in order to get a GUI program to make a simple noise: the sort of thing that on a text console would be done by \a My…
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How to disable the system beep of LMDE?

I got annoyed with the system beep of Linux Mint Debian Edition when I login or logout. I have found some solutions like: echo "blacklist pcspkr" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but it didn't work for me. How can I turn off the beep?
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Screen blinks when unauthorized action is attempted

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…
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How can convert characters into characters that'll produce beep noises?

I'm new to Linux and have recently started working on my very first (very simple) project - a morse code generator. I've been able to get the translation working, and now I want to take the next step. What would be the best way to go about…
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How can I have screen transmit an audible bell produced in a background window?

I managed to replace the audible bell by a visual clue in the active window, but for background windows, can I get an audible bell instead of a visual notification ?
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Make noise on Ubuntu 18.04 without internet

I have an Ubuntu machine that currently has no internet connection. I want to set it up so it makes a sound when internet comes back. I'm not sure this machine has a PC speaker, but there is a speaker connected to the on-board sound card. In the…
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Disable beeping in lightdm

When typing backspace in an empty password box in lightdm, noisy beep sound comes out. Is there a way to mute this beeping?
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Flash terminator tab on process exit or completion

Any idea how to "flash" the terminator tabs on process completion? I was looking over terminator_config and set the visible_bell = True but it didn't seem to do what I wanted.
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IRSSI: Disable bell on activity in certain channel

I use IRSSI (Win 8.1 x64 + cygwin + SSH to remote host, sometimes via putty instead of cygwin) and it's configured to flash taskbar button whenever there's activity in any channel or private chat. There's a bot in one of the channels I'm in which…
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