Beep is back!

[Andrew Robinson]

Thanks all for the help, but as I mentioned, it is all fixed, no need
to continue this thread

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Kevin Somervill
<ksomervi at brokenlogo.com> wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
>  This isn't an xfce issue, but in /etc/inputrc you can specify how the
>  readline library handles the bell (beep).  Set the bell-style to none
>  should fix it.
>
>  # /etc/inputrc
>  # none, visible or audible
>  set bell-style none
>
>  ./ks
>
>
>  MC Andrew Robinson cold spun it on 02/28/08 14:50:
>
>
> > Well for a while on my xubuntu box the system beep was gone and I was
>  > very happy. Recently the beep came back and I am not sure why. Even in
>  > firefox, I disabled the beep (set
>  > accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound to false) but it is still
>  > beeping!
>  >
>  > I tried disabling the beep through the gnome configuration manager
>  > sound, but to no avail.
>  >
>  > I tried the XFCE Sound configuration in the Xfce Settings Manager and
>  > there doesn't appear to be any setting for disabling this beep.
>  >
>  > I am in cube land so system beeps are really annoying to myself as
>  > well as others. Is there any way in XFCE to completely disable the
>  > ability for my computer to beep?
>  >
>  > 2.6.22-14-generic i686
>  > xfce4 4.4.1
>  > firefox 2.0.0.12
>  >
>  > Dell Latitude D630
>  > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
>  > Controller (rev 02)
>  >
>  > Thank you,
>  > Andrew
>
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>  --
>  Kevin Somervill
>
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