Package: readline-common Version: 6.2-8 Severity: wishlist The default install lets various X applications beep. There have been lengthy discussions on debianforum.de on how to disable the beep. Suggestions included blacklisting modules, putting commands in different places in /etc, cutting speaker cables. Obviously, the beep annoys a lot of users and it's not easy to find a solution. The solution I finally arrived at was to uncomment the line
set bell-style none in /etc/inputrc. If this is the proper way to disable beeping, I suggest to make it default as it will avoid postings like "how to disable beep in Emacs?", "how to disable beep in Konsole?", "how to disable beep in Firefox?" in the future and save work for a lot of people. I am aware that some people like the beep, but I feel the majority doesn't. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages readline-common depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.8 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 readline-common recommends no packages. readline-common suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
