Turning off system beeps

Hi,

first post. Here's how remove all bleeping system beeps. Should work on most versions.

First things first, remove the damn pc speaker completely:

echo 'blacklist pcspkr' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/pcspkr.conf
sudo rmmod pcspkr

Then, remove gtk apps beep:

echo "gtk-error-bell = 0 " >> ~/.gtkrc-2.0.mine 

then, the readline/bash beeps:

echo "set bell-style none" >> ~/.inputrc

even better, put the above line into /etc/inputrc

remove all console beeps in X:

echo "xset b off" >> ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh

remove all console beeps from system console:

echo "setterm -blength 0" >> ~/.profile
echo "setterm -bfreq 0"  >> ~/.profile 

or /etc/profile.

then, gdm:

 sudo vi /etc/gdm/gdm.conf

[greeter]
SoundOnLogin=false

or run

sudo gdmsetup

and untick the sound there.

finally, if you have this in under /etc/default/grub, (carefuly) comment it out like so:

#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"

I've still got this loading at boot time:

[    6.763225] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input11

but I don't think it's doing anything that bleeps me off. yet.

Statler; great release guys. Loving my desktop again.

edit: heading fixed, global inputrc, path fix
edit: found more beeps. going mad now.

if vim beeps add this to ~/.vimrc

set vb t_vb=

if your man pages and other things beep:

amixer set 'PC Speaker' 0% mute
amixer set 'PC Beep' 0% mute

esentially, the pcskr blacklist and the amixer muting should end all beeps, so do those first.

Last edited by framling (2010-07-15 20:03:53)