On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: -+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- -+ -+On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Vithar wrote: -+ -+> -+> Okay, I realize that this is not neccessarily a Debian problem, but -+> since I am using Debian, I figured I'd ask this here anyway. <g> -+> -+> Is there any way, short of physically disabling it, of turning off the -+> annoying beep on the Linux console ? I get tired of having it beep at me -+> whenever I try for filename completions or hit backspace one too many -+> times or some such. Is there a configuration change that will do this or -+> does the kernal need to be patched ? -+> -+ -+ -+If you using bash, I sometime know about a variable (named *BELL* or -+something matching it...) who let you choose the *right* behavioyur. Maybe -+they're some like in tcsh. Elsewhere, you can use screen as I do for most -+of my console session. It provides multiple windows screen session, -+hardcopy and let you choose between none-visual-or-sound bell.
Bash uses the readline library which in turn reads a file called "~/.inputrc". Below is a listing of mine: rudi:~$ cat .inputrc set bell-style visible set show-all-if-ambiguous On rudi:~$ The first line turns the beep into a flashing screen (no beeps anymore), and the second line makes completion work at the first hit of TAB (less beeps for those terminals which don't have a visual bell). See also man readline. Bye, Heiko ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heiko Selber (Fritz-Haber-Institut Berlin) | I condem'n the abuse of | http://www.fhi-berlin.mpg.de/~selber | apostrope's. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Phone:+49-30-8413-4574, Fax:+49-30-8413-4686 |____________________________| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
