On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:10 +0100, Free wrote: > hello all, > some laptops made a very loud beep, in the terminal with autocolpetion, > or when thunderbird receives a new mail. Unfortunately, it seems that > this problem is related to something that os2008 (snv 101a) doesn't > manage, you can turned the volume down to nothing, this beep is always > here, and doesn't exist in Windows. > There were differents solutions to manage it, so far: > 1 - "xset b off" in the terminal, but you have to type it every time you > login > 2 - modify KBD_BEEPER_FREQ, CONSOLE_BEEPER_FREQ in /etc/default/kbd to 0 > 3 - add a startup program in System->Preferences->Sessions that does: > "xset b off" > 4 - create a /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf from /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf > to disable sound > 5 - hack /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default to add "xset b off" > > before b101a, every solutions worked, but with b101a, the beep is coming > back, and i have to use solution 1, others solutions seems insufficient. > > Is it possible to address this problem definitively when we are on a > laptop?
Isn't this beep the "Terminal Bell" in gnome-terminal's "Profile Preferences"? Assuming you're using gnome-terminal... - Christian
