On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:25:18PM +0100, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off the console's beep, or at least  is there a way
> to turn the beep's volume down? (Other than by simply turning down the
> volume knob.  Even with the XMMS slider all the way up, the beep is at least
> as loud as (generally louder than) any music that I'm listening to.  If I'm
> comfortable with the music, the beep is
>  disturbing. If the beep is comfortable, the music is too low.
> 
> This mostly botheres me in an xterm attached to bash and in emacs under X.I
> could probably find applications-specific knobs to twiddle to eliminate the
> beeps there. But, I'd really like to know if there's a nice way to do this
> at the system level.
> 
> Regards, Zafer.

See xset(1), the section about (b)ell (first one under OPTIONS).  

e.g. xset b off to turn it off completely.  

GH

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