[Techtalk] Terminal beeps

[Angelina Carlton]

> how can I turn off the terminal beep at the command line? I normally use
> gnome-terminal, and if it's just turned off there, that's better than
> nothing.
> 
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I am not sure if your using bash, but I think editing the 
/etc/inputrc file and adding the line:

set bell-style none

will at least stop it beeping on tab-completion errors or file matches..

that will affect all users, I belive you can make a ~/.inputrc
if you want it to affect only you.



Angie