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Visual AND audio bells are incredibly annoying. I DON'T CARE that I hit backspace 3 times when there were only 2 characters in the terminal! I KNOW you can't tab-autocomplete because I can see that you HAVEN'T DONE IT!

I want NO BELLS! Of any variety! All the solutions I see online are to turn the visual bell on or off, which inversely turns the audio bell off or on. I want NEITHER BELL!

This is on Ubuntu 12.04 in screen.

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It's not the "BEEP!" from the speaker on the motherboard or whatever. It's a "Boink!" sound, clearly a pre-recorded sound effect.

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Alright, apparently this question doesn't belong here. In case anyone discovers it on the internet anyway, I got what I wanted by turning off the visual bell (which turns on the audio bell) and then also going to System Settings -> Sound -> Sound Effects -> Selecting both mute check boxes.

Sheesh.

Dave Aaron Smith
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try

setterm -blength 0

man setterm

clyde
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You have two options as far as I can see it

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    It's not the internal speaker. It's this "Boink!" sound. "Boink! Boink! .... Boink!" – Dave Aaron Smith Aug 17 '12 at 15:50
  • http://superuser.com/questions/15770/what-is-the-best-way-to-turn-off-the-ubuntu-beep-permanently – DKNUCKLES Aug 17 '12 at 15:51
  • If it's not the pc speaker, then you're not just "in screen", you're "in screen in some sort of terminal". That "some sort of terminal" has the setting for what to do with a bell, for instance PuTTY has an entire screen of options under "Bell". – DerfK Aug 17 '12 at 15:59