[ale] [ Question ] - how do i get rid of system beep

[Steven A. DuChene at VA Linux Systems]

On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 01:50:32PM -0400, Vernard Martin wrote:
> > Is there any way to shut that annoying thing off?!  I've looked in my
> > Linux books and checked the man pages, but to no avail.  I know it may
> > sound like a stupid question, but I'd really like to shut it off.  I
> > thought about just disconnecting my PC speaker, but I figured there
> > has to be a way to do it via the operating system.
> 
> You can change the system beep to flash the screen instead. If you hold down
> the control key and the middle mouse buttin in an xterm then you should get a
> menu that will let you choose the "visual bell" option.
> 
> There are various ways to do this permanently. The way that I'm most familiar
> with is to add an option to yoru .Xdefaults file.
> 

Yes, but this doesn't work at a shell prompt on the virtual console...
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Steven A. DuChene	sad at valinux.com