Extraneous noises really bother me. No, I mean really.
| X Window | /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc | xset b off | |||||||||||||||
| Gnome 3 | Settings > Sound > Sound Effects > Alert volume ⇒ mute
or /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds=false in gconftool terminal emulator | varies | Most terminal emulators have a way to stop the bell.
GNU Screen | ~/.screenrc | bell_msg "" # don't change the message-line whenever a bell occurs
vbell off # don't react to bells visually -- rather, pass them on unfiltered to the real terminal |
Bash | ~/.bash_profile | setterm -blength 0 |
Bash/et al | ~/.inputrc | /etc/inputrc set bell-style none |
Vim | ~/.vimrc | set noerrorbells " this one may fixes most beeps, you may only want this one. But if you want complete silence, inlude the other two
set visualbell
set t_vb= |
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| Ubuntu 10.10 |
System > Preferences > Sound > Sound theme ⇒ No sounds System > Preferences > Startup Applications > disable GNOME Login Sound System > Administration > Login Screen > disable Play login sound sudo mv /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu.disabled |